Speaker 1: You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron Tonight's
Speaker 1: story isn't from a hiker or a camper. It's from
Speaker 1: a man who's spent over four decades behind the wheel
Speaker 1: of a semi truck watching America pass by, mile after mile.
Speaker 1: But in the back roads in swamps of Florida, something
Speaker 1: started watching him. Back five sightings, two encounters in a
Speaker 1: truck that shook in the middle of the night with
Speaker 1: no one in sight. This isn't a legend, it's not
Speaker 1: a secondhand story. It's a first hand account from someone
Speaker 1: who knows what he saw. And this is the story
Speaker 1: of Eric, the trucker who saw five. To stay with us,
Speaker 1: all right, Bigfoot Society, we got the privilege of talking
Speaker 1: to Eric today. Eric is an individual who's a listener
Speaker 1: of the show but also has had some very interesting
Speaker 1: things he's experienced over the years being a truck driver.
Speaker 1: So welcome to the show, Eric, how's it going, man?
Speaker 2: Went great so far. Great to be here.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're hanging out on a Sunday afternoon. It's beautiful
Speaker 1: up here in Iowa. I hope it's nice where you
Speaker 1: you are as well.
Speaker 2: It is now we had tornadoes last night, so we're
Speaker 2: doing good now with the sun out.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you made it through.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's good.
Speaker 1: Now, Eric, before you get going, is there anything that
Speaker 1: the listeners would need to know for context regarding you
Speaker 1: being a truck driver or would it probably be best
Speaker 1: for you just to launch into sharing what you experienced.
Speaker 2: I'll probably just go right into it because of I
Speaker 2: had two weeks. I've had five sidings and two personal experiences,
Speaker 2: and I think it'll fill up a lot.
Speaker 1: All right, sir, Well, you know, let's make sure you
Speaker 1: have all the time you have so for you feel
Speaker 1: free to take the mic from here and take us
Speaker 1: back to when this all start happening for you, okay.
Speaker 2: I took the leisure of writing down dates and times
Speaker 2: after the first one because I was one of those
Speaker 2: back in the day who always thought this was a
Speaker 2: north western US and Canada type of thing and there
Speaker 2: was nothing around here. I never realized how popularly we
Speaker 2: were with these people, and it was almost like a
Speaker 2: shock the first time I saw one, which was April thirteenth,
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, and that's when I really became a knower.
Speaker 2: I'd always been a believer because I thought, there's just
Speaker 2: too much evidence in history, from back in the Viking
Speaker 2: days of Nova Scotia before it was Nova Scotia, through
Speaker 2: the early days of the country when American Indians and
Speaker 2: settlers didn't compare notes, yet they had the same sightings
Speaker 2: of the same beings. There's just too many things like that.
Speaker 2: And once I realized people were really did have artifacts
Speaker 2: from them, things that they've kept from them that they
Speaker 2: wanted science to look at, then I started really looking
Speaker 2: at it more and listening even more. And as of
Speaker 2: April thirteenth, one put himself right in my face down
Speaker 2: in Florida. And I should also say that I'm a
Speaker 2: resident of Georgia, but all five of my sightings and
Speaker 2: two experiences have all been in Florida because I had been.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize at the time, but I was in
Speaker 2: a hot zone and for four of those sightings and
Speaker 2: two experiences it was a hot song and also had
Speaker 2: a siding two hundred miles north of there, still in Florida,
Speaker 2: so and which by the way, was my only daylight
Speaker 2: sighting as well. But I'd always been a believer, And
Speaker 2: then on that night that almost exactly I used to
Speaker 2: haul I had a dedicated run from Atlanta down to
Speaker 2: Central Florida, and I used to take a couple of
Speaker 2: back roads and bypasses which would take me through a swamp,
Speaker 2: nice long straight, uninterrupted with traffic, just just a great
Speaker 2: way to go to save time, and with me always
Speaker 2: looking at trying to avoid wildlife. You know, I'd see
Speaker 2: the slightest movement anywhere and try to avoid it. And
Speaker 2: but this, I was on a bypass, and it's just about,
Speaker 2: like I said, just about one am, I saw, well,
Speaker 2: I was on a bypass and there's no street lights there.
Speaker 2: It's pitch black. There's no moonlight this night, and a
Speaker 2: couple of cars were coming towards to me. So I
Speaker 2: cut my brights off. And when I did that, I
Speaker 2: saw a movement to my left of a man running
Speaker 2: from the left across the road. I thought, from the right,
Speaker 2: I mean to the right. I didn't understand why this
Speaker 2: is all was split second thinking too. So as soon
Speaker 2: as these two cars passed me, as soon as they
Speaker 2: got to my front bumper, the last one got to
Speaker 2: my front bumper, I hit my brights and it was
Speaker 2: just in time to see this. What I thought was
Speaker 2: I hadn't hauled has mat in the past. I know,
Speaker 2: you know a time bac suit would come to the
Speaker 2: mind immediately, which for anybody that don't know, that's a
Speaker 2: white one piece suit to protect you from chemicals. And
Speaker 2: I see this guy from my left, just like a hurricane.
Speaker 2: He's running so fast. But when I hit my brights
Speaker 2: it was just in time to see him get to
Speaker 2: the actual highway and cross in front of me. And
Speaker 2: he was only I've said four hundred before, I didn't
Speaker 2: mean to say in the past when I've told another
Speaker 2: person about this, I didn't mean to say four hundred yards.
Speaker 2: It's more like four hundred feet. He was pretty close.
Speaker 2: But when he went across the road, I was awe
Speaker 2: struck and I couldn't believe what I was seeing because
Speaker 2: what I thought was a man in a Tivak suit
Speaker 2: was actually a white haired what I thought was a
Speaker 2: man run across the road, tall enough to look in
Speaker 2: the window of my truck without getting on the step
Speaker 2: and move into Like I've talked to a guy in
Speaker 2: Florida about their speed, saying that he was moving at
Speaker 2: an ungodly speed, just doesn't seem to grasp what you
Speaker 2: feel when you see it. And he said, down here
Speaker 2: in Florida, we call that psycho speed, and that fits
Speaker 2: the bill a little bit better. It was psychotic how
Speaker 2: fast he was moving, but it was slowly enough where
Speaker 2: I'm such a highly perceptive person anyway that I looked
Speaker 2: at it's like nothing else existed. I just focused right
Speaker 2: on him because I was in shock and awe. He
Speaker 2: was colored differently, which two of these five sightings were
Speaker 2: colored differently. This one he was white top to bottom,
Speaker 2: but it looked like he was wearing black gloves that
Speaker 2: went up his forearms and black boots that went halfway
Speaker 2: up the shins. So that confused me a little bit,
Speaker 2: and I thought that's got to be just mud or something.
Speaker 2: He got on him and he crossed the road, hit
Speaker 2: the bushes on the right side, and I didn't know
Speaker 2: there was a river over there. And after talking to
Speaker 2: and reporting this side into the Florida they're in an
Speaker 2: international group, but mainly they check on things in Florida,
Speaker 2: I called them the next night. I looked up to
Speaker 2: find out who to talk to down there, and the
Speaker 2: guy that I spoke to the heads that said that
Speaker 2: he was probably What they do is run back to
Speaker 2: where they came from an area they're most familiar with,
Speaker 2: and he must have been heading back to that river
Speaker 2: because they used those as trailways. And you know, this
Speaker 2: was kind of new to me too. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I've learned a lot about them since twenty sixteen, believe me,
Speaker 2: but at that time I didn't know that. And he
Speaker 2: said he would go and check it out. But he
Speaker 2: said what it was probably was that he had been
Speaker 2: standing in some real soft riverside swampy mud and he
Speaker 2: was probably digging for muscles or who knows what else
Speaker 2: in there to eat, and he was he had just
Speaker 2: come from the area he was coming from was a farm,
Speaker 2: a horse farm, so there's no telling what he was
Speaker 2: coming from and going to butt. When I got home
Speaker 2: the next night, I looked up the number of the
Speaker 2: Florida Group, and I looked up the map and to
Speaker 2: find out where I was at so I could report
Speaker 2: it actually before him before I called them to tell
Speaker 2: them where it was. And he told me there was
Speaker 2: a river there and he would check it out film it.
Speaker 2: He did, and he put it on his website. And
Speaker 2: when he filmed it, this was a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: after I'd me and him had spoken on the phone,
Speaker 2: which I can say that his one of those associatates
Speaker 2: called me the next day, and then he called me
Speaker 2: two weeks after that, and then he went down there
Speaker 2: and filmed it. And of course there wouldn't be any
Speaker 2: footprints left if there was before with the Florida rains
Speaker 2: off and on sporadically as they come. But what he
Speaker 2: did find, which he even said in the video, I
Speaker 2: thought was interesting. He was filling the area and you
Speaker 2: can see scrub marks from wild hogs, so there's a
Speaker 2: lot of wildlife back there, which Florence still a lot
Speaker 2: of wild hogs anyway. But where I saw him cross
Speaker 2: in front of me when he hit the bushes, that
Speaker 2: was still there. You could see where he came through
Speaker 2: those bushes, because when he walked up to film this,
Speaker 2: he said, well, this is interesting. Look at this. It
Speaker 2: looked like a tunnel. This tunnel was made up of
Speaker 2: those half inch thick vines with one inch thorns on him,
Speaker 2: and he just blew right through that like it was nothing.
Speaker 2: And it was still open where he came through. So
Speaker 2: that made me feel a lot better too, because at
Speaker 2: the time I was still almost questioning myself did I
Speaker 2: really see what I thought I saw because he moved
Speaker 2: so fast, and what I saw just blew me away.
Speaker 2: That in Florida, I couldn't believe it. And then the
Speaker 2: coloring that was explained as I said. And when I
Speaker 2: got down to the terminal where I was delivering, I
Speaker 2: played Devil's Advocate and filled and played ignorance to it.
Speaker 2: And I asked the terminal manager when he came over
Speaker 2: to get the bill lady, I said, do you guys
Speaker 2: have any white bears down here? And he said no,
Speaker 2: and I explained what had happened, and he said, oh,
Speaker 2: what you saw was a kyote. And I said, coyoties
Speaker 2: don't wrong on the back legs that fast or at all,
Speaker 2: and they're not tall enough to look in the window
Speaker 2: of my truck. And everybody in the off office from
Speaker 2: the window was quiet. And then there's one guy over
Speaker 2: in the back corner. He always stares at his computer
Speaker 2: and never takes his eyes off the screen, never says anything.
Speaker 2: And he yelled all the way across the room because
Speaker 2: he had heard our discussion, and he said, what you
Speaker 2: saw was a skunk akee and we got a bunch
Speaker 2: of them down here, and everybody got quiet and looked
Speaker 2: at me. I looked at them, and I just let
Speaker 2: the the subject drop. And I used on that out
Speaker 2: because we all know what I saw and they I
Speaker 2: don't know if they believe it or not, but I
Speaker 2: just let it drop and I left and next night
Speaker 2: I got the information. The following day from that, I
Speaker 2: called and spoke to that group and that all happened
Speaker 2: what I explained earlier, and that was that, and the
Speaker 2: guy was He called me two more times after that
Speaker 2: to see if I wanted to talk about it anymore.
Speaker 2: And one thing he said that I'll never forget that's
Speaker 2: still true, is he said, once you've seen one, it
Speaker 2: don't matter if it's fifty years from now, it'll still
Speaker 2: seem like it was last night, And that being my
Speaker 2: first one, it definitely did and definitely does. I still
Speaker 2: can see it, I still feel it. I said, we'll
Speaker 2: see everything I saw that night, just as if it
Speaker 2: just happened, And having already written down everything about it,
Speaker 2: I just had it on a piece of paper to
Speaker 2: tell the group about it from down there. But that
Speaker 2: was April thirteenth, and I was sitting there's an area
Speaker 2: in the swamp where we as truck drivers, well preface
Speaker 2: it this way to say we as truck drivers, have
Speaker 2: to take a mandatory break after eleven hours of driving.
Speaker 2: And when I'm close enough to that eleven, I'll go
Speaker 2: ahead and pull over and take my mandatory ten and
Speaker 2: at least get that out of the way and coming
Speaker 2: out of Florida, especially with three different back calls, I have.
Speaker 2: I have a certain place that a park which is
Speaker 2: right there at that swamp. Now that swamp, that particular
Speaker 2: big swamp is fifteen miles from where that sighting was
Speaker 2: my first sighting, and I had no idea that that
Speaker 2: was a hot zone as well. I found out later
Speaker 2: through talking to the head of the group that he
Speaker 2: said he has a lot of sightings in that area,
Speaker 2: because we've spoke a number of times after this. He
Speaker 2: said he has a number of sightings from that area,
Speaker 2: even from local cops who can't report it or thought
Speaker 2: of as losing their minds and fossily their jobs, but
Speaker 2: they did. He has had some reports from them in
Speaker 2: the area. And I told him that this was July
Speaker 2: of twenty seventeen. I was sitting there taking my break.
Speaker 2: It's just a great location for the length of time
Speaker 2: to get from where I'm at to taking the break
Speaker 2: and still having time to get over there and get
Speaker 2: everything done that I need and take off from there
Speaker 2: the following morning, and I was sitting there doing my
Speaker 2: paperwork and I heard a loud pop. I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is significant or not, but I went ahead
Speaker 2: and wrote it down because I grabbed that piece of
Speaker 2: paper with my first sighting on it, and I thought
Speaker 2: I better write this down because it could be something,
Speaker 2: not really thinking too much about it being serious, and
Speaker 2: I'm still not sure. But I'm sitting there doing my
Speaker 2: paperwork and there's such a loud pop not too far
Speaker 2: from my truck that sounded like a twenty two caliber
Speaker 2: pistol going off. So I looked out the window. You
Speaker 2: could tell it was fresh wood. In other words, I
Speaker 2: look out my window, and of course it's pitch black
Speaker 2: out there, and it's woods and swamp, and I didn't
Speaker 2: see a flashlight or lantern of anybody who could have
Speaker 2: been out there, so I didn't know why that would
Speaker 2: have popped. But I'm just I wrote this down and
Speaker 2: I relate it now because it could be significant, and
Speaker 2: I started becoming more I guess at the time I
Speaker 2: was laughingly saying that I'm so squatched sensitive now that
Speaker 2: everything you know, I'm looking at it and listening and watching,
Speaker 2: and still it could have been. And I told the
Speaker 2: guy down there about that, and he said, yeah, it
Speaker 2: could have been. They might have been signaling that you
Speaker 2: just parked it with her. You just never know what
Speaker 2: the sounds are that they make, or why we don't
Speaker 2: know enough about the Knox or anything yet exactly. We've
Speaker 2: got some real good ideas about the Knocks now, but
Speaker 2: that could have been. So I just left that on
Speaker 2: the list. And just three months after that October the
Speaker 2: third of twenty seventeen, I'm two hundred miles north of
Speaker 2: that swamp taking another back road that I take up
Speaker 2: through central Florida. I take out of ten and then
Speaker 2: I take another are back highway so I can go
Speaker 2: up through central Georgia to where I'm delivering back to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: And there's a there's an agricultural stop we have to make.
Speaker 2: We call them aggravation stations or accenters, where we just
Speaker 2: have to stop and they check to make sure that
Speaker 2: you know what we've got in our trailer before we
Speaker 2: get up to the state line. And it's a pretty
Speaker 2: good distance, you know, it's probably I believe it was
Speaker 2: about twenty some midd miles from the state line, but
Speaker 2: it's still it's in a water protected area, conservation area pastures.
Speaker 2: And of course, me being as I said, quote unquote
Speaker 2: squatch sensitive, now I'm looking around thinking, yeah, what could
Speaker 2: exist here? There's food, there's shelter, there's this, there's that.
Speaker 2: And I went through there so much that three of
Speaker 2: the officers that work there, we've just waved each other
Speaker 2: and I'd go on, they know what I've got. And
Speaker 2: as I slowed down to get his wave, I saw
Speaker 2: a movement to my left and prifelvision, and when I
Speaker 2: looked up real quick, I saw another one. I saw
Speaker 2: a red one. This time it was the only red
Speaker 2: one I've seen, the only daylight sight that I've seen.
Speaker 2: It was another one running at that psychotic speed, and
Speaker 2: he almost made it without me seeing him. He was
Speaker 2: so fast, but I jerked my head around quick and
Speaker 2: saw him just in time. He jumped over a six
Speaker 2: foot fence into the woods, and then he suddenly stopped
Speaker 2: and slowed down so much. And the reason I say
Speaker 2: that is that as I was and I'm still rolling
Speaker 2: I'm still doing about five miles for hour rolling and
Speaker 2: I was at the area that he went into the
Speaker 2: wood woods within two seconds. I was so it was
Speaker 2: so close, and I looked in where he went in.
Speaker 2: Of course I didn't see him. But before that, the
Speaker 2: reason I know he stopped and went slow is that
Speaker 2: him being red and the foliage still being pretty green.
Speaker 2: I saw him moving behind the foliage and he went
Speaker 2: real slow, and then he vanished. And as I got
Speaker 2: to that area, I thought, sure i'd see him, and
Speaker 2: he wasn't there. I thought, look at that, there's another one.
Speaker 2: And so I wrote that all down and that was
Speaker 2: just that was just over a year from the first
Speaker 2: sighting April thirteenth to October third of seventeen. From sixteen
Speaker 2: and a month after that, going up that same road,
Speaker 2: I started noticing tree structures what could have been tree structures,
Speaker 2: But because now I'm really looking at that area as
Speaker 2: I go through it and passed it, it's a long
Speaker 2: ride through swamp and pasture and no body out there
Speaker 2: and no buildings, no houses or anything, just that accenter.
Speaker 2: And so I stopped and took a picture of what
Speaker 2: I thought was the structures, and as I went on
Speaker 2: past that a couple of one hundred yards. You know,
Speaker 2: a couple of years before that, I would have looked
Speaker 2: at those trees the way they were stacked together, and thought, well,
Speaker 2: you know, they fell in a good synchronized way, I guess,
Speaker 2: but and look over it. But now I don't, I
Speaker 2: look at it for what it might be. And a
Speaker 2: couple of hundred yards from there, out in the middle
Speaker 2: of a palm Franz field, was a tree limb that
Speaker 2: had been stripped down, and it was horizontally placed on
Speaker 2: a couple of branches way out in the middle. I
Speaker 2: thought I would have thought that who would have or
Speaker 2: why would somebody do that? And I still don't know why.
Speaker 2: But as I said, being a squat says, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at that too and wondering why is that there? And
Speaker 2: it still could be something I don't know, but just
Speaker 2: things that I picked up and noticed along the way
Speaker 2: that may or may not mean anything at all. But
Speaker 2: that was September. Two months after that. Now I'm into
Speaker 2: November of twenty seventeen. I'm going through down to the
Speaker 2: area where I normally park to take my break on
Speaker 2: the northbound side. I'm southbound on that same highway coming
Speaker 2: to the end where it meets another highway and tease
Speaker 2: into it, and I make a left right there. And
Speaker 2: as I'm you know, cranking up my gears getting the
Speaker 2: truck moving again, I'm looking. I'm always looking for a movement.
Speaker 2: And I see movement to my left periphial from my
Speaker 2: bright lights being on, because as I said, there's no
Speaker 2: lights in that area that area either or other. And
Speaker 2: I saw movement to my left just in time for
Speaker 2: the peripheral of my bright lights to pick up a large,
Speaker 2: really large black being turn and walk away. And if
Speaker 2: he hadn't moved, I would have never seen him. I
Speaker 2: would have never had any reason to look. But when
Speaker 2: he moved and walked away, I saw his right arm
Speaker 2: swing back as he stepped away, and I went, there's
Speaker 2: another one right there, And look how closely as to
Speaker 2: where I park? This is like I think I measured
Speaker 2: it at two tenths of a mile from what I
Speaker 2: normally park, so I know they're right where I easily
Speaker 2: stay for the night. And now they're really close to home.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking that this must be a hotter zone than
Speaker 2: I thought, because it really looks like and I always
Speaker 2: thought it was but now there's evidence again, and I
Speaker 2: didn't mission it to the guys that at the terminal anymore.
Speaker 2: They never said anything else about it to me either.
Speaker 2: They're just they're not the guys to talk to about
Speaker 2: stuff like this. I did talk to one truck driver
Speaker 2: down there, and he kind of looked at me sideways,
Speaker 2: and I thought, okay, yeah, there's you know, it's just
Speaker 2: the type that don't want to believe it, and they'll
Speaker 2: start thinking that I'm a whack of So there's very
Speaker 2: few people, even family, that that I tell anything to,
Speaker 2: because even some of them that I thought would believe me,
Speaker 2: they even looked at me kind of quietly, and I thought, okay, well,
Speaker 2: I won't talk to these family members anymore about it.
Speaker 2: And in fact, my girlfriend at that time and my
Speaker 2: oldest sister were they They believe me. They know me
Speaker 2: well enough to know I'm not just making up fantasies
Speaker 2: to be to talk and draw attention to myself. I'm
Speaker 2: not that way. My girlfriend is a full blood American Indian.
Speaker 2: In her tribe, they have them, she believes in them.
Speaker 2: I can't even pronounce what they call them, but she's
Speaker 2: from an Arizona tribe and there she knows up very well.
Speaker 2: And then my sister, of course, she just believed me
Speaker 2: because she knows me. There were other friends that I
Speaker 2: told that that were semis So believers, and they still
Speaker 2: looked at me like, you know, maybe you'll see one
Speaker 2: out west, but for you to have this many sightings
Speaker 2: and be right there in Florida, I don't know. It
Speaker 2: just made me feel like that. They didn't actually say it,
Speaker 2: but I know them well enough for their looks, so
Speaker 2: I quit talking to anybody about it. And I haven't
Speaker 2: even mentioned this to anybody in years. I'm a knower.
Speaker 2: I know they exist, and when I see people online
Speaker 2: talking about the what it could be instead of you know,
Speaker 2: I just let it go that one day people are
Speaker 2: going to know, and right now it's just I think
Speaker 2: more people nowadays know than ever before. I think we've
Speaker 2: communicated enough now that a lot of people know about them,
Speaker 2: and the ones that don't know just don't want to believe.
Speaker 2: And you know that's there right as well. I'm not
Speaker 2: I would never try to convince anybody, but as far
Speaker 2: as I can tell, like my family members, they really
Speaker 2: don't have any reason to believe other than what I've
Speaker 2: told them because they're not out and about. And I
Speaker 2: can also say that if I hadn't been in these
Speaker 2: certain areas on this job, I would have never seen
Speaker 2: any but I happen to be on the right highway,
Speaker 2: in the right locations at the right time. Obviously, I
Speaker 2: don't know if maybe they would have been doing what
Speaker 2: they were doing anyway, whether I was there or not,
Speaker 2: but they were obviously in my eyesight and close to
Speaker 2: me at that time anyway, and they could have waited.
Speaker 2: That's another question I have about it, is these road
Speaker 2: crossings I've had, and these sightings I've had, why didn't
Speaker 2: they just wait until I passed? And why would they
Speaker 2: come out in front of me like that? That always
Speaker 2: made me one to two. Thus, they don't have any
Speaker 2: answers for really. So after having that third sighting that
Speaker 2: was November fifteenth or twenty seventeen, it was nine months later,
Speaker 2: October twenty third of twenty eighteen. This was at eleven
Speaker 2: thirty five PM, I had another road crossing, and this
Speaker 2: one as I came down through that swamp area again,
Speaker 2: I got to where it teas off and I make
Speaker 2: my left where I'd just seen a year before that
Speaker 2: one on the on the left. As I started cranking
Speaker 2: up my gears, well, I had gotten up to roughly
Speaker 2: eighth ninth gear, so I had pretty good speak going
Speaker 2: at that time. And that's kind of a dark highway
Speaker 2: as well. But as you get further up the road,
Speaker 2: street lights are starting, and there's some businesses and houses.
Speaker 2: But before that, there's a there's still a lot of
Speaker 2: pasture land around there, and there's a painting farm or
Speaker 2: some type of farm with some animals on it that
Speaker 2: advertised on the right. And I see this is, you know,
Speaker 2: late at night, as I said, eleven thirty five, and
Speaker 2: so I'm watching all the time, and I see movement again.
Speaker 2: This is on my right side. So I look, and
Speaker 2: here is a black one running right towards me. As
Speaker 2: I'm going up that road. He's coming down the other
Speaker 2: side towards me. And I'm looking at him as he
Speaker 2: crosses the road, of course, taking in all the characteristics
Speaker 2: I can of him. And this one's also colored strange,
Speaker 2: but he's a black one with a gray face. I
Speaker 2: could see. I didn't have my glasses on it at
Speaker 2: that time, but I can still tell. I was close
Speaker 2: enough to tell that he was gray faced and black.
Speaker 2: He was running on all fours and don't I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say it was the psychotic speed I had seen twice,
Speaker 2: but this was very fast. But when he crossed the road,
Speaker 2: I noticed he had a white side, and without my
Speaker 2: glasses on, thinking about it later, I was thinking that,
Speaker 2: well he came from that patentsume maybe he had a
Speaker 2: goat under his left arm. He was carrying like a football.
Speaker 2: Maybe he had a labrador or a sheep, a pig,
Speaker 2: And he was just far enough with that I couldn't
Speaker 2: really tell. He was close enough enough that I could
Speaker 2: tell that. I couldn't get details, but I got characteristics.
Speaker 2: And as I got up to where he crossed the
Speaker 2: road he went across. When I reported that one to
Speaker 2: the same Florida group, the guy said, well, there's a
Speaker 2: three foot bob wire fence right there where he crossed it.
Speaker 2: He jumped and on and I said, as a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, he didn't jump. He ran across that fence
Speaker 2: like it was an open gate. That's just how big
Speaker 2: he was. And he was built like a like a
Speaker 2: football player wearing pads. He was huge. And as he
Speaker 2: came barreling towards me, I was taking all this in
Speaker 2: and as he crossed the road, I've got so used
Speaker 2: to this now you could say that as he crossed
Speaker 2: the road, I remember saying to myself out loud, don't look,
Speaker 2: there goes another one of those things they say don't exist,
Speaker 2: And there he goes. I watched him cross, no moonlight out.
Speaker 2: But when he got into that pasture area, he went
Speaker 2: into an island of trees and I couldn't see, but
Speaker 2: I could see his white side, And once the white
Speaker 2: side disappeared, I knew he was in the trees pretty thick.
Speaker 2: So if he had been, if he didn't have a
Speaker 2: white patch on his side, and he was standing there
Speaker 2: at night, i'd never seen him. There's no telling how
Speaker 2: many had been around me. And I don't E didn't
Speaker 2: know about it, but that characteristic gave him away, like
Speaker 2: he was running with a spotlight on his side, and
Speaker 2: it was this whole rib cage. And I've heard since
Speaker 2: then that there's been some scene with a big white
Speaker 2: patch on their back and on the chest area, So
Speaker 2: it could have been that. I don't know. I just
Speaker 2: don't know what it was. It's it's just funny that
Speaker 2: he was coming from a zoo or a farm, rather
Speaker 2: and he had that that white side, so it made
Speaker 2: me think, that's all I mean, I really don't know.
Speaker 2: And I reported that one and the head of that
Speaker 2: group again he went out there and he said he
Speaker 2: sat and that's also let me say this also that
Speaker 2: that that is right at some power lines, and he
Speaker 2: said that power line area is a very hot area
Speaker 2: for them to travel. So, like I said before too,
Speaker 2: and I'm in a hot someone out even realizing it.
Speaker 2: They're all around me down there, which is why I
Speaker 2: never got out of my truck at night. I never
Speaker 2: one time. I did before before I knew this, but
Speaker 2: after these and the things that are going on down there,
Speaker 2: I just quit getting out at night. That hadn't really
Speaker 2: really no reason except to wait until in the morning
Speaker 2: daylight or close to daylight with my strong flashlight. So
Speaker 2: he said when he went down there to check it out,
Speaker 2: that he sat for two hours on the side of
Speaker 2: the road, watching and waiting, and he interviewed, talked to
Speaker 2: some people that had the UH that lived close by,
Speaker 2: not right that area, but live close by, And he
Speaker 2: talked to a few people at the first sight and
Speaker 2: as well and let his card with them, but just
Speaker 2: to let him know that he was on their property
Speaker 2: looking around, and but he said again he didn't see anything.
Speaker 2: And that was that was another area where the cops
Speaker 2: I reported seeing them as well. So it's good to
Speaker 2: know that, you know, somebody in the law enforce I
Speaker 2: have seen the same things I've seen. But as I
Speaker 2: said before too, i'm a believer now, I mean I'm
Speaker 2: a knower now. And I wasn't even thrilled to see
Speaker 2: that one. As big of a deal as that was.
Speaker 2: I just saw him like I was watching, you know,
Speaker 2: anybody's horse had gotten out, and he ran across the road.
Speaker 2: There goes a horse, and it just wasn't that thrilling.
Speaker 2: It was exciting to see, but I'm calm about it now.
Speaker 2: And so anyway, that was my fourth one, and that
Speaker 2: was twenty eighteen. The fifth one went all the way
Speaker 2: up to January twenty sixth of twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 2: this happened at two am again the same area that swamp.
Speaker 2: As I'm coming down to where the road's to you off.
Speaker 2: I had always thought that that pasture area across where
Speaker 2: the highway teas into the next highway looked like a
Speaker 2: great place for one. So for those next three years
Speaker 2: or so, every time I made that stop right there,
Speaker 2: it hit my bright lights. When there were no cars
Speaker 2: around where, it would just my lights would sweep across
Speaker 2: that field. Because it's pitch black out there, but I've
Speaker 2: seen it in the daytime. I know what's there. And
Speaker 2: as my lights would sweep across across, I could see,
Speaker 2: you know, a deer once in a while, and a
Speaker 2: cow once in a while. It wasn't a lot of
Speaker 2: cows out there, and I would just sweep it and
Speaker 2: go on. Well, this night of January twenty sixth, when
Speaker 2: I made the sweep, I saw it like a bright
Speaker 2: neon lights lights beaming off of that. I saw a
Speaker 2: white one, another white one, and it was Now this
Speaker 2: was also the creepiest one of all. For some reason,
Speaker 2: he was probably at least three hundred yards away. You know,
Speaker 2: he wasn't real close, but I didn't I know enough
Speaker 2: about their characteristics. Now when I see one, I know one,
Speaker 2: and he was. It was a white one. He was
Speaker 2: standing slightly turned to the right but towards me, and
Speaker 2: he was leaning over just a little bit, and he
Speaker 2: was just standing there like a statue. And as I
Speaker 2: made the sweep, I went look at that there, speaking
Speaker 2: out loud to myself. I talked to myself a lot,
Speaker 2: but I said, look at that, there's another one, and
Speaker 2: without my bright lights. When once my lights had passed him,
Speaker 2: I couldn't see him anymore. It's so pitch dark out there.
Speaker 2: So I leaned forward and looked out my passion's side
Speaker 2: window because I couldn't see him, and it's pitch black.
Speaker 2: There's no way to see him at without my bright lights,
Speaker 2: I would never known he was there either, even though
Speaker 2: he's completely white. And I reported that one to the
Speaker 2: guy as well to the group. But that one was
Speaker 2: the creepiest one for some reason. And I've heard about
Speaker 2: them projecting things into people like confusion and fear and
Speaker 2: things like that, so I think this one was possibly
Speaker 2: just reaching me and saying that I'm not safe, don't stop,
Speaker 2: don't come over here. Who knows or what reason why.
Speaker 2: But even though he wasn't moving, he was just standing
Speaker 2: there looking at me. I had a real crazy feeling
Speaker 2: about him, and I was glad to leave him behind
Speaker 2: and keep on going up the road because that was
Speaker 2: very strange. So that was my five sightings, and I've
Speaker 2: had two other experiences, which is the reason I don't
Speaker 2: run Florida anymore, besides having sightings which some people would
Speaker 2: get away from it all because of that. That kind
Speaker 2: of fascinated me, but I didn't want to get too
Speaker 2: close to be one of the people. I've heard on
Speaker 2: their sightings where they've run into them in the woods,
Speaker 2: or they've almost bumped into them, or they were twenty
Speaker 2: feet from them, and that kind of thing. I can
Speaker 2: only imagine how terrifying that could be to anybody. When
Speaker 2: I'm seeing the sheer size and the bulkiness and thickness
Speaker 2: of these beings at a safe distance. I've had the
Speaker 2: kind of sightings that most people wish they could have,
Speaker 2: where they could just see them from their vehicle and
Speaker 2: keep going. Thankfully, all five of my sightings have been
Speaker 2: like that. But right there again at that hot swamp
Speaker 2: coming back where I take my break, where I heard
Speaker 2: the pop before I pulled in there on June sixteenth
Speaker 2: or twenty two, so this is five months roughly after
Speaker 2: seeing that white one, and that's always been a safe
Speaker 2: place to park. The trucks line up there bumper to
Speaker 2: bumper on both sides of the highway, especially on the
Speaker 2: south down side, but on the north down side, we
Speaker 2: have a limited amount of space, and we might have
Speaker 2: maybe eight tractor trailer combinations in there, bumper to bumper
Speaker 2: pretty close, and that's all the room there is, whereas
Speaker 2: the other side goes for a few tenths of a
Speaker 2: mile and it's further up. It's not right beside us,
Speaker 2: it's further up. So we're kind of in this. We're
Speaker 2: on this side of the road by ourselves. But there's
Speaker 2: always been a safe place to park, and it's such
Speaker 2: a safe place that even though it's out in the public.
Speaker 2: What I do when I shut down for the night,
Speaker 2: when I turn lights out and the motor off and everything,
Speaker 2: or leave it on for that matter, I always cover
Speaker 2: my eyes and ears. What I do is I take
Speaker 2: a dish towel and fold in half and cover my
Speaker 2: eyes and ears for complete and total darkness, just in
Speaker 2: case any lights hit me. And then I take my
Speaker 2: gun range ear covers and put them over the towel
Speaker 2: over my ears, and it holds the towel there. And
Speaker 2: it's very nice and quiet and peaceful where I can
Speaker 2: sleep goether I can't even hear I can barely hear
Speaker 2: cars driving past me, and I don't wear that kind
Speaker 2: of what I call a rig just everywhere. And if
Speaker 2: I'm in a questionable place where I've got to shut
Speaker 2: down for the night on the side road or entrance
Speaker 2: exit ramps somewhere, I don't do that. And it's not
Speaker 2: a very good nice sleep either. But there just like
Speaker 2: a rest area, I put the rig on and I'm
Speaker 2: lights out. But anyway before that, I pulled into that
Speaker 2: swamp and I shut down and thinking everything's normal, normalless
Speaker 2: it ever is, And I'm standing between the seats with
Speaker 2: the lights on, and I'm reading and it's an inspection
Speaker 2: report that was just done on my motor. Because I
Speaker 2: try to improve each sound. I have a PM done
Speaker 2: on the motor. I try to see if my idle
Speaker 2: times better, mileage is better for a mile, etcetera. So
Speaker 2: I like to read over it and compare them. And
Speaker 2: I'm standing there between the seats reading over that one,
Speaker 2: and my whole truck rocked. And it wasn't what something
Speaker 2: my co workers. I told some of the guys about
Speaker 2: they because they parked down there, and I said, you guys,
Speaker 2: be careful when you parked on there, because somebody rocked
Speaker 2: my truck. The other night, and I never told any
Speaker 2: of them what I know it was. And they said, oh, no,
Speaker 2: it's just your air bags releasing. They'll tremble a little bit.
Speaker 2: And I said, I've been driving almost forty two years.
Speaker 2: I'm sixty two years old. I started driving in the
Speaker 2: early eighties. I know what airbags feel like when they release.
Speaker 2: At this stage of the game. You know, they'll give
Speaker 2: you a little shudder while there the air's coming out
Speaker 2: of them. But this, and also I told them my
Speaker 2: motor wasn't even even running. I mean, my motor was
Speaker 2: still running, so there was no reason for the air
Speaker 2: bags to release. So it wasn't that anyway. But whatever
Speaker 2: did this, I was telling them, rocked my truck so
Speaker 2: hard that I took one hand to clutch my seat
Speaker 2: because I was rocking inside like that. And I was
Speaker 2: so shocked by that. I immediately cut the light out
Speaker 2: and looked out the window, and of course nothing was there.
Speaker 2: And that was not a very good night's sleep that night,
Speaker 2: because that had never happened, and I'd never heard of
Speaker 2: it happening, And so I didn't park down there again
Speaker 2: next morning when I left. When I came back down
Speaker 2: a couple of days later, I didn't park there. I'd
Speaker 2: go past that highway twenty more miles up to the
Speaker 2: interstate where I knew of a good rest area and
Speaker 2: I could shut down. And I did that for a
Speaker 2: few months, but when I went past that area. Funny
Speaker 2: thing was when I went past that highway and looked
Speaker 2: there might be only one or two trucks parked there.
Speaker 2: So I started wondering, maybe some of my neighbors have
Speaker 2: been getting harassed there too, and we don't know each other,
Speaker 2: we wouldn't have any reason to know. Have a coffee
Speaker 2: break there and talk about it. So this went on
Speaker 2: for weeks. When I went past there, nobody hardly was there,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't gonna stop. Forget it. I never parked
Speaker 2: there on weekends, but even during the week I just
Speaker 2: went on past it. And I finally got my gumption
Speaker 2: up again. That happened June sixteenth or twenty two, well,
Speaker 2: September eighth of twenty two. Let me back up. At
Speaker 2: the end of August, I went there and nothing happened,
Speaker 2: so I thought everything was okay. Whatever did that must
Speaker 2: have been a fluke. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 2: fluke it could have been, but maybe I won't be
Speaker 2: bothered anymore, even though I know what did it. Well.
Speaker 2: September eighth was the second time parking there from my
Speaker 2: initial return, and everything was fine. I had put the
Speaker 2: lights out, motors off, I put my rig on, and
Speaker 2: I was in just about and I was in such
Speaker 2: a deep sleep. I was dreaming. And my truck got
Speaker 2: rocked so hard that my head was bouncing and rolling
Speaker 2: around on the pillow, and I was in such a state. Well,
Speaker 2: I was dreaming that just a few years before that
Speaker 2: we'd had a tornado where I was living at the time.
Speaker 2: My wife. My wife couldn't wake me up. She had
Speaker 2: ran upstairs and she was bouncing my head on the pillow.
Speaker 2: Tell me I was under a sleeping pill. I should
Speaker 2: take those once in a while. And that night I
Speaker 2: had taken a sleeping pill and she was bouncing my
Speaker 2: head on the pillow and she said, this is the
Speaker 2: third time I've came up here. You've got to get
Speaker 2: out of here. The tornt They just said, the tornado
Speaker 2: was almost here. Get down to the basement where we're at.
Speaker 2: I slowly fell out of the bed and got up
Speaker 2: and anyway, when my truck was being rocked, I was
Speaker 2: dreaming that I was in that place again, with my
Speaker 2: wife bouncing me, telling, trying to wake me up. That's
Speaker 2: how hard the rocking was. I immediately tore the rig off,
Speaker 2: kind of kiss cussing, because now I was getting irritated
Speaker 2: with it. I jumped up out of the bed and
Speaker 2: looked out the window, and nothing's there, of course, which
Speaker 2: made me even more mad. So I thought, these things
Speaker 2: are harassing me now. And I had already tested the
Speaker 2: springs on the truck, trying to recreate what happened the
Speaker 2: first time. And I'm two hundred and sixty five pounds,
Speaker 2: I'm sixty two, and I had gotten up on the
Speaker 2: side step and grabbed the monkey bar and I had
Speaker 2: bounced up and down, pulling on it. I'd push on it,
Speaker 2: shake it, and I can barely move those springs, which
Speaker 2: I knew would happened. That the suspension is huge on
Speaker 2: these trucks. But whatever was shaking me was shaking it
Speaker 2: like you would you would rock any like a motorcycle,
Speaker 2: like you're bouncing up and down on a little dirt bike.
Speaker 2: It was rocking me so hard, and I thought, that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not coming here anymore. This is it.
Speaker 2: But I was. I was mad. I wasn't afraid. So
Speaker 2: what I did was throw my rig back on and
Speaker 2: go back to sleep. I mean, not long before that.
Speaker 2: I would have never done that, but I was. I was.
Speaker 2: I was more mad than anything else. And I kept
Speaker 2: going down there. But another thing I heard about was
Speaker 2: the Chippewa will Before they go into the woods, there
Speaker 2: are jibs and chip Hole would speak to the beams
Speaker 2: and say, I'm coming in because I have to hunt, etcetera, etcetera,
Speaker 2: don't bother us, We're not here for anything, et cetera,
Speaker 2: sort of apologizing as they come into the wood line.
Speaker 2: And I thought, I'm going to do that. I'm going
Speaker 2: to park down there, and I started doing it. When
Speaker 2: I parked there, I would just roll my window down
Speaker 2: and talk to the darkness and just tell them that
Speaker 2: I'm only here because I have to be. Don't scare
Speaker 2: me tonight. I'm not here to bother you. I'm only
Speaker 2: here because I have to be. As soon as I
Speaker 2: get my rest, I'll be gone. And I did that
Speaker 2: for the last few times I was there until I
Speaker 2: got another run. Because what I did was I talked
Speaker 2: to my dispatch about changing locations because i'd been running
Speaker 2: that same area for so many years, and all over
Speaker 2: Florida for that matter, but actually that area that as
Speaker 2: of August last year, I started running North and South
Speaker 2: Carolina instead because I thought they're getting too close to
Speaker 2: me now and I don't want to get any closer
Speaker 2: and have to find out what to do next time.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what might be the next time,
Speaker 2: what might happen, And I'll just leave this as a
Speaker 2: as a peaceful get away. You all keep living as
Speaker 2: you're living, and I'm going up here to live as
Speaker 2: I live, which, by the way, I had been invited
Speaker 2: twice because of these sidings. I've been invited twice by
Speaker 2: people to go down and camp and do some trailing
Speaker 2: and tracking, and I refused both times. I just haven't.
Speaker 2: I don't have any use for that. I'm not a
Speaker 2: researcher and I don't want to be one, and I
Speaker 2: don't want to bother them anyway. So there's not anything
Speaker 2: that I would I would look forward and try to do.
Speaker 2: I just wouldn't want to bother them anyway. You know,
Speaker 2: if I was hunting and I ran into some by accident,
Speaker 2: that's one thing, But actually camp and look for them.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. I have no reason.
Speaker 2: And I just looked at live as you live, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to go live as I live unless I
Speaker 2: have a peaceful separation forever, I hope. And uh, I'd
Speaker 2: say that that's it. That's my experiences in Florida. All
Speaker 2: in Florida.
Speaker 1: By the way, Eric, that is the incredible grouping of
Speaker 1: encounters and so interesting. You're a truck driver as well.
Speaker 1: I want to comment real quick. A lot of truck
Speaker 1: drivers reach out to me. They don't come on record.
Speaker 1: There's there's more out there that's happening. Then more people
Speaker 1: that then people realize when it comes to truck drivers
Speaker 1: seeing Bigfoot, it's a lot. So it's it's very unique
Speaker 1: that you you've come on record, and thank you for
Speaker 1: doing so. There's something you said at the very beginning
Speaker 1: that I thought was interesting because you said it really quick.
Speaker 1: You may not have even noticed that you said it,
Speaker 1: but uh, I'm just curious. So you refer to them
Speaker 1: as as people is what I heard?
Speaker 2: Correct? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, what was it was? What made you get
Speaker 1: to the point where you you now refer to them
Speaker 1: as people as opposed to like a skunk, Gabe, or
Speaker 1: bigfoot or sasquatch.
Speaker 2: The main thing that made me, even even though I've
Speaker 2: never personally heard this, it was there's beach they have
Speaker 2: where they communicate with each other, and I've heard there's
Speaker 2: family units and small clans and they try not to
Speaker 2: bother us that like any other animal or or a
Speaker 2: person pretty much would would do, but unless they're threatened.
Speaker 2: But the speech and communication what I've heard about, and
Speaker 2: I've heard the recordings from from Ron in California, and
Speaker 2: in fact I heard them again the other day that
Speaker 2: you know, they've they're built like us, just more extreme,
Speaker 2: but they communicate. They're built like us, They've got the
Speaker 2: same body parts we do, so why wouldn't they have
Speaker 2: the same family units? And it makes me think of
Speaker 2: them as just that as people, as groups of a
Speaker 2: different huge strain of people. That's all. It's, That's all it.
Speaker 1: Is, gotcha. It's it's very interesting, especially, I mean when
Speaker 1: you think of there's there's some times when they've been
Speaker 1: referred to as like the wild man, and you know
Speaker 1: there might be something to that. Think of what would
Speaker 1: happen if you know, we were put in a wooded
Speaker 1: situation for years and years and years. What would happen
Speaker 1: to us eventually? I mean, who knows, right, but it
Speaker 1: might bring us back to a certain way of living.
Speaker 2: There's no telling, absolutely no way of telling that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree, it would.
Speaker 1: Be an interesting experiment. I don't know if it'll ever
Speaker 1: be done. But you mentioned that you see them move
Speaker 1: like psycho speed fast, which is a really interesting way
Speaker 1: to say that, but I think it definitely gets the
Speaker 1: point across. Have you ever seen anything else move that
Speaker 1: psycho speed fast? In this can even be in like
Speaker 1: a movie or a TV show, anything else that comes
Speaker 1: close to what you would see.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing I could compare it to is
Speaker 2: that I thought about this beforehand. Back then was Mutual
Speaker 2: of Omaha's Wild Kingdom I grew up on. They would
Speaker 2: show a leopard run in slow motion where you would
Speaker 2: see a blur behind him, and then they would let
Speaker 2: it go at actual speed. It reminds me of that
Speaker 2: it's just lightning super fast, and I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: It's still hard to believe that a being that that
Speaker 2: size can move that quickly. It's no doubt that they
Speaker 2: are the greatest athlete on the world in the world
Speaker 2: with their strength and speed that who could match that?
Speaker 2: What could match that? And I've also heard witnesses say
Speaker 2: out in Alaska that they had seen a squatch standing
Speaker 2: at the end of a woodline, and these guys, they
Speaker 2: were some type of tribe in Alaska, and they were
Speaker 2: in the canoe coming up on the shoreline, so they
Speaker 2: stopped when they saw the squats on the left side
Speaker 2: side neyud just see him in the shadows. But to
Speaker 2: the right they also stopped because the grizzly bear was
Speaker 2: just taking his time on all fours walking down the shoreline.
Speaker 2: So they stopped and looked and watched, and that grizzly
Speaker 2: sniffed the air, and without missing any of his stride,
Speaker 2: he did a U turn and just sauntered down the
Speaker 2: other way, like I want to go down there. And
Speaker 2: I've heard about him easily killing black pears, but I
Speaker 2: LOSTO heard them killing and breaking the necks of grizzlies.
Speaker 2: So as fast as they are, as strong as they are,
Speaker 2: there's no match for them. But the speed is just
Speaker 2: it's just funny. When I talk to the guy in Florida,
Speaker 2: he said, that's what we say down here. It's psychotic
Speaker 2: speed and I said, man, you hit it right on
Speaker 2: the right on the nail head. Because I've said ungodly
Speaker 2: a lot. It's like that, just don't quite get it.
Speaker 2: Are super fast and nothing reaches me like psycho speed
Speaker 2: does because it's Another guy said that it reminds him
Speaker 2: of back in the black and white movie days of
Speaker 2: Dracula when the used have Friday night fright videos on
Speaker 2: different characters like that that you would see a you
Speaker 2: would see Dracula and then so he would disappear and
Speaker 2: then reappear split second thirty feet away. He said, it's
Speaker 2: kind of like that, like they just not vanish and reappear,
Speaker 2: but they move so fast. It's almost like that. But
Speaker 2: I agree that it's just the word psych it go
Speaker 2: just just grabs me where it needs. Characteristically, their their
Speaker 2: speed is like that.
Speaker 1: Those are some really interesting ways to describe it, and
Speaker 1: I think those are new ones to this show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for Thank you for digging deep. Those are pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I want to clarify something about your your sightings that
Speaker 1: you've had. Was there ever a time where you were
Speaker 1: able to see any any details of the face or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 2: No, I wish there was, but I was never. They
Speaker 2: were never moving slow enough or it was too dark,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't close enough to actually see that. I've
Speaker 2: seen the faces from profile, and the one on all
Speaker 2: fours running towards me. I could tell his face was gray,
Speaker 2: but I couldn't see detail. And again I wouldn't wear
Speaker 2: my lie said that night, either right makes sense? Is uh?
Speaker 1: So what you had seen at different times? You know
Speaker 1: after Let's say you see the Patterson Gimblin film or
Speaker 1: the Patty film, is it was it similar at all
Speaker 1: to that? Or make completely different from what you saw.
Speaker 2: Now? The one on all fours would have been her size,
Speaker 2: just a huge barrel with limbs, running towards me. The
Speaker 2: one that made a let when I saw him turn
Speaker 2: and walk away, he was that big. Also, the red
Speaker 2: when I saw run across the road and jumped the
Speaker 2: six foot fence, was smaller, and he might have been
Speaker 2: a six footer. He just wasn't one of those mega
Speaker 2: huge ones. He wouldn't even as thick as them, but
Speaker 2: he was at least six feet I'd say the white
Speaker 2: one that on my very first sighting, he had to
Speaker 2: be at least seven feet tall, maybe more. It was
Speaker 2: such a quick sighting and my first one. I could
Speaker 2: only compare it to him being able to look in
Speaker 2: my truck without stepping up. We could be eye to
Speaker 2: eye with me sitting in the seat. So he might
Speaker 2: have been a little more than seven feet. And the
Speaker 2: white one that was way out in the pastor I
Speaker 2: couldn't tell, but he was he was pretty thick. I
Speaker 2: could tell he wasn't just tall and skinny because he
Speaker 2: was standing there and I could see him for a
Speaker 2: few seconds as my life went past him.
Speaker 1: Do you think, let's say, man, I mean, there's something
Speaker 1: that could rock the entire truck. That's that's big, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of force. Do you think they could have
Speaker 1: actually gotten inside the truck if they wanted to easily.
Speaker 2: I think with the limbs and trees that they break,
Speaker 2: if they really wanted me, it's so amazing that they
Speaker 2: aren't more. I mean, they could eat if they wanted to,
Speaker 2: They could be as violent and wipe us out. I
Speaker 2: believe if I drove past that one that was standing
Speaker 2: there and it turned and walked away, never know any
Speaker 2: was there, if he wanted to, he would have easily
Speaker 2: snatched the door off my truck and snatched me out
Speaker 2: if he wanted to. I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: As strong as they are, and as we're almost feeble
Speaker 2: compared to them, there's nothing we have physically to outmatch them,
Speaker 2: and their strength is really ungodly I can use the
Speaker 2: word for that.
Speaker 1: You know, it makes me, It makes me wonder and man,
Speaker 1: if you could only get in side their heads and
Speaker 1: know what they think. When all of a sudden, out
Speaker 1: of the darkness, this massive truck comes flying out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: It's like, do they know it's it's a vehicle like
Speaker 1: a little you know, but well, a little super outback
Speaker 1: or something like that is a totally different vehicle as
Speaker 1: opposed to a huge, you know, truck you're driving. And
Speaker 1: I wonder if they man it would be it would
Speaker 1: be fascinating to get inside their head for a few
Speaker 1: different reasons. But I wonder if they're looking at a
Speaker 1: truck as like a huge enemy or just they're a
Speaker 1: where yeah, one of those weird you know, those those
Speaker 1: human creatures are in there. They've just you know, decided
Speaker 1: they've figured out how to control it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those thinking out loud things. But you know, seeing being
Speaker 1: able to have multiple sightings was there a thing that
Speaker 1: you realize. It's like, as soon as you saw this
Speaker 1: one thing about them, or notice the way that they
Speaker 1: were they were acting, You're like, oh, it's one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: it's a it's another one of these people from the woods.
Speaker 2: A certain characteristic.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the color, because I've only seen
Speaker 2: three different colors, and when I see what I think
Speaker 2: is is one and it's one of those three color
Speaker 2: colors and they're as big as they are from top
Speaker 2: to bottom, I think that's no human. There's no there's
Speaker 2: no man or woman that big and that thig and
Speaker 2: moving that fast, or like the last sight in the
Speaker 2: white one, so big and thick, just standing there out
Speaker 2: the middle of a pitch black field, the things, just
Speaker 2: seeing them move and even standing there, and just the
Speaker 2: overall feeling I get from looking at them that I
Speaker 2: know that's not a human. In fact, I've seen when
Speaker 2: I saw that white one just a few days after that,
Speaker 2: there was and I've ever seen this before either when
Speaker 2: I made that I continued making that sweep with my headlights,
Speaker 2: I made that left turn, but when I got down
Speaker 2: to the end of that swamp road to make the left,
Speaker 2: there was a couple of this was at midnight. There
Speaker 2: were a couple of cars, I mean trucks, pickup trucks
Speaker 2: with their headlights on, parked out there in the middle
Speaker 2: of the field. And who knows what they were doing
Speaker 2: and wine maybe maybe there was something going on with
Speaker 2: the cattle or the farm. Animals were found over there.
Speaker 2: It makes me wonder a lot, but that was unusual.
Speaker 2: But as far as seeing them, that's all I can
Speaker 2: say is just their size and the color. I've seen
Speaker 2: two black ones, two white ones, and the red one
Speaker 2: in the daylight. So anytime I see that right then,
Speaker 2: you know, I go right to there they are. There's
Speaker 2: another one. But when I saw when I had the
Speaker 2: fourth side and across the road in front of me
Speaker 2: on all fours, Like I said, I'm just not excited
Speaker 2: that much by then, and I just say look at that.
Speaker 2: There he goes. Yeah, they don't exist, But there he
Speaker 2: goes again, there goes another one.
Speaker 1: Rather right, they sure not are out here and they're
Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah, that's funny. Sometimes people report
Speaker 1: that they have interactions like this and it will things
Speaker 1: will start to manifest at their home. Have has anything
Speaker 1: like that ever occurred? After you've had these interactions in
Speaker 1: the truck.
Speaker 2: No, not at all. And I had been aware of that, yeah,
Speaker 2: and hoping that wouldn't happen to me. I've heard about
Speaker 2: them attaching themselves in some way like that, and back
Speaker 2: when I was wondering all the time, you know, I
Speaker 2: think about it every day, especially when I was down there.
Speaker 2: I would look in the woods constantly for any movement,
Speaker 2: and I had really hoped that they wouldn't let that
Speaker 2: happen to me, Like and when I did my speeches,
Speaker 2: I call them speeches when I have my little saying
Speaker 2: down there before I go to sleep at night too,
Speaker 2: I would say that that would be one of the
Speaker 2: things I would say, is don't go with me, just
Speaker 2: stay where you're at. I'm not here to bother you,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. I have my own little thing
Speaker 2: that I would say like that. And thankfully, no, nothing
Speaker 2: that ever happened.
Speaker 1: Eric, That's that's a really big detail. I wonder that's
Speaker 1: got to have something to do with it. How how
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, you know, don't cross the boundary, you know,
Speaker 1: please please stay where you are. I honestly think there's
Speaker 1: there's something to what you did, and and how you
Speaker 1: haven't experienced that that that's the super super interesting. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to hear if people that listen to this episode.
Speaker 1: I know that we're definitely we're staying vague as to
Speaker 1: the swamp and the hot zone and all that, which
Speaker 1: is more than okay. But I'm sure that some truck
Speaker 1: drivers will probably be like, I know exactly and yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had weird stuff too. If you guys don't want
Speaker 1: to put it in the comments, or you know, not
Speaker 1: putting it out there and being not being a public
Speaker 1: about it, you always can. You can reach out to
Speaker 1: me if if you'd like as well, you send me
Speaker 1: an email Bigfoot Society, gmail dot com. I know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of truck driver stuff happening, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: guys want to stay in the shadows, and that's more
Speaker 1: than okay.
Speaker 2: So that'd be great. And another reason I don't say
Speaker 2: anything about that is not only to keep the general
Speaker 2: public away from it, but it's also there's different group
Speaker 2: groups that have that as a research area. So I
Speaker 2: didn't want to throw it out there for everybody. But
Speaker 2: once I mentioned about Wheterly Park and how we park,
Speaker 2: it probably is an indicator but I had to say
Speaker 2: that because after that first episode of shaking my truck,
Speaker 2: it dissipated. There just weren't many trucks there, if any,
Speaker 2: some nights. So once I started seeing the crowd come back,
Speaker 2: I went back and it took a few weeks. So
Speaker 2: there must be somebody else who've had some experiences down there.
Speaker 1: That's so interesting. Oh this is kind of a weird,
Speaker 1: weird thing, but it just popped in my head. I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot about the trucker life, but I
Speaker 1: know a little bit, mainly what I've pulled from old movies.
Speaker 1: Did you ever reach out? Well, first off, do you
Speaker 1: still have like cbe radios in trucks?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I still use them.
Speaker 1: Did you ever reach out when when you're in a
Speaker 1: certain area and be like, Hey, did anyone else experience
Speaker 1: that or just see that or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I never did that. I never did that anymore than
Speaker 2: talking to him in person, even though that would be
Speaker 2: a little more incognito. I still I just got kind
Speaker 2: of the cold shoulder enough that I didn't mention it
Speaker 2: anymore to anybody. And the lead mechanic where I work
Speaker 2: I had mentioned I had mentioned to him that I've
Speaker 2: been shook down there. And he's another one that's kind
Speaker 2: of looking at me strange, but he was a little
Speaker 2: more understanding. He said, well, it is kind of strange
Speaker 2: that in all the years you've been driving, it's never
Speaker 2: happened before, and it only happened down at the swamp.
Speaker 2: He says, Okay, that's a good point right there. And
Speaker 2: another driver was standing close by, and he was one
Speaker 2: of those that was kind of looking like there's nothing
Speaker 2: going on down there. You know, that's what they want
Speaker 2: to believe. That I've experienced it. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: try to convince you. Just go ahead and keep parking
Speaker 2: down there and see if that happens to is how
Speaker 2: I feel about it. I'm not down there anymore now,
Speaker 2: but I know what's there visually and experienced it.
Speaker 1: Eric, this has been just a really fun conversation. Learned
Speaker 1: a lot about don't talk a lot about Florida stuff.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that you came on. As we as
Speaker 1: we start to wrap up our time, I want to
Speaker 1: make sure that you were able to get everything shared
Speaker 1: that you wanted to share on the show today, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing else that you wanted to make sure you
Speaker 1: got out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's it because I just what I
Speaker 2: did was get my notes just for the show. It
Speaker 2: was really easy. I didn't have to really try to
Speaker 2: recall anything. I've got everything right there with the dates
Speaker 2: and times and locations, and so know that that's that's it.
Speaker 2: I've said it all. That's awesome about it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 2: Eric.
Speaker 1: I have a few more, like one or two more
Speaker 1: questions for you, but I just want to say thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on the show today. Absolutely
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