WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:12.640 All right, all right, this person rode in with two experiences. 2 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.439 One is with a bigfoot and I think another's with 3 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:18.719 an alien. But let's see what they write. In the 4 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.839 late nineteen eighties, my stepfather Rick had a hab enough 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.960 smoking pot. At that time, it was still illegal and 6 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.719 people had to find places to smoke where they wouldn't 7 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:32.439 get caught. One time, Rick went with his friend up 8 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.000 into the mountains, parked on an old logging road, and 9 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:39.479 turned the lights and engine off in his truck. When 10 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.880 everything seemed clear, they pulled out their stashed and sparked 11 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.159 it up. Whoop. They were sitting there when out of nowhere, 12 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.960 a large man appeared in the middle of the road. 13 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:54.000 There were no vehicles or buildings in the area. The 14 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.000 entire reason they chose a back road on the mountain 15 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.640 was because they knew no one would be there. Well, 16 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:03.679 seeing this man come out of nowhere startled Rick and 17 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.560 his friend, who immediately got paranoid, thinking they were about 18 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:12.840 to get busted with pot. Paranoid. No, how would they 19 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.239 be paranoid? Then, just as quickly as this man appeared, 20 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.519 he vanished. He reappeared a moment later, with three more 21 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.519 of his kind behind him, That's when Rick and his 22 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:29.480 friend realized they weren't regular people. They were far too tall, 23 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:33.359 and it was a family a bigfoot. They walked across 24 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.560 the road right in front of the truck, from the 25 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:38.760 tallest to the shortest, and then they disappeared into the 26 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.359 trees on the other side. Rick and his friend got 27 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.280 out of there as quickly as they could, desperate to 28 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:47.840 get off the mountain before they had another run in 29 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.439 with these creatures. That was pretty good. Let's go to 30 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:56.079 story number two. In nineteen ninety seven, near the small 31 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:03.560 town of Oro Fino, Idaho r f I No, Idaho, 32 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:07.200 my family and I were staying with their friends Louise 33 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.719 and Kelly. The first night passed by uneventfully, but the 34 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:16.039 next morning, my stepdad Rick told us something terrible happened 35 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.879 to him in the night. He said he woke up 36 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:21.960 and was unable to move. His eyes could look around, 37 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:25.240 but the rest of his body was paralyzed. Then he 38 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.719 watched five little creatures travel right through the wall and 39 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.280 they surrounded him in the bed. He described them as 40 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.319 the classic gray aliens you hear about in abduction reports. 41 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.719 They had big heads and big black eyes, and they 42 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:43.360 were no more than four feet tall. He looked at 43 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.400 our dog, Daisy, and he said her eyes were open 44 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.759 in fear, but her body seemed to be paralyzed too. 45 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.439 As he laid there helpless, these creatures began to pump 46 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.879 some sort of orange substance down his throat. When his 47 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:02.919 body couldn't take any they helped him regurgitate it. The 48 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.400 next thing he knew, he woke up in bed in 49 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.360 just his underwear, which was unlike him normally, Hi went 50 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.719 to bed in full pajamas. As Rick told this story, 51 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.960 I could tell that he was visibly shaken. I didn't 52 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.800 know him to be afraid of anything, so I believed him, 53 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.120 but his friend Kelly didn't believe him. We consoled Rick 54 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:27.280 as Kelly went outside, only to see him walk in 55 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.560 moments later with his face as white as a sheet, 56 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.039 and he told all of us to come outside and 57 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:37.120 look at something. We followed him outside and saw a 58 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.479 two foot puddle of gelatinous orange goo in the middle 59 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:44.759 of a patch of snow in the front yard. There 60 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.039 were no signs of footprints anywhere, and we never did 61 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.840 get an explanation for what it could have been. Most 62 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.280 of us cannot openly discuss these experiences, but you give 63 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.280 us a platform to speak freely and tell the world 64 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.439 what happens in the dark corners of this world. So 65 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.759 thank you Cam for all that you do. And he 66 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.520 signs off, well, I appreciate it. That wasn't really the 67 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:13.240 intent when I started this podcast. I just wanted to 68 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:18.120 tell fun stories. But apparently, and I've said this before, 69 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:22.040 people get some kind of relief, They get a little 70 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:25.360 sense of peace when they're able to share a story 71 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:29.360 that probably most people they've told don't believe, just like 72 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.439 this guy did with the orange stuff pumped down his throat. 73 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.759 Nobody believed him until they saw the orange goo out 74 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.040 in the front yard. That's weird. That is a weird story. 75 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.879 But I certainly appreciate the gentleman sending the story to me. 76 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.959 Thank you, sir. All Right, all right, welcome to the podcast. 77 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.560 I'm sorry I've been absent. I did get a couple 78 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:53.079 of podcasts up last week, a couple of long ones, actually, 79 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.720 but I've been busy at work and I'm also trying 80 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.199 to put the finishing touches on Steve Lilly nineteen. It's 81 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.759 a good story, or at least I think it is. 82 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.720 I hope you guys enjoyed. I hope to have it 83 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.439 up in the next couple of weeks, but welcome to 84 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.920 the podcast. You know. You can also find this podcast 85 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:15.720 on Apple, Spotify, any podcast app that you use by 86 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:21.199 searching what if It's true podcast. Probably a lot less ads, 87 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.600 probably easier to listen to, a lot less drain on 88 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.959 your phone battery, a lot less data used if you're 89 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.720 on a data plan. It's just a good way to 90 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.160 listen to the podcast and actually save money doing it 91 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:38.240 all my contents free. I don't charge for anything. I 92 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.040 did get an email from YouTube. There's been a lot 93 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.959 of people complaining about the ads. Look, I don't have 94 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:47.160 anything to do with the ads. There are a few 95 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.800 videos where I can take ads out or ad ads 96 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.600 if I want to, and I did that for about 97 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.959 a year. I kind of would go in and I 98 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.399 would place my own ads. But when I would watch 99 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.399 the video, they're just putting the ads wherever they want 100 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.800 to put them. That's the way YouTube does, and I'm 101 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.839 fine with that. I don't have a problem with that. 102 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.199 So I got an email probably in the last couple 103 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:14.000 of weeks where they said, we see that you're placing 104 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:18.360 ads in your videos. You're manually placing ads in your videos, 105 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.560 which is what you all would want me to do 106 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.199 to make sure there's not twenty ads. There's only like four, 107 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.920 three or four ads. But the YouTube was so kind 108 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.160 to say that they're going to go ahead and ad 109 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.480 ads anyway to help me make more money. It's not 110 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.800 to help them make more money, it's to help me 111 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.839 make more money. But anyway, the whole point is I 112 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:42.279 have nothing to do with the ads. I've tried to 113 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:45.079 control them the best I can. But if you listen 114 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:50.439 on a podcast app like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, you're 115 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.839 gonna get maybe two ads per podcast. That's it. But YouTube, 116 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.480 that's how they make their money. I understand it. I 117 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:59.879 don't have a problem with it. I actually have you 118 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.959 premium so I never see an ad. And let me 119 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.319 tell you, it is worth every penny. It's like one 120 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.040 hundred and ten dollars a year. If you watch YouTube 121 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.160 a lot, man, that's worth that's worth one hundred bucks. 122 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.680 Plus you get full length of movies. You get tons 123 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.279 of movies and stuff that you wouldn't get if you 124 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:22.279 didn't have an account. So I recommend that, but I 125 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.600 know some people they don't want to spend another one 126 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.040 hundred dollars a year. That's a year, not a month, 127 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.360 that's every year. I understand people don't want to spend 128 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.839 that money, but I thought i'd let you know about it. Anyway, 129 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.240 enough talking, Thanks for clicking on the podcast. I got 130 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:40.279 two more stories after this. They're really good. They're really good. 131 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:47.560 All right, here we go, all right, all right, we 132 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.920 got a Bigfoot story. Everybody's favorite Bigfoot stoory. This is 133 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.279 a little bit longer than some, and it's very interesting. 134 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.879 Here's what the writer says. My encounter with Bigfoot started 135 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.639 in nineteen seventy seven and continued until we moved in 136 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.720 nineteen seventy nine. I was seven years old at the time. 137 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.560 My parents had rented a house right up against the 138 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:15.319 San Bernardino County Mountains in California. We lived in a 139 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:23.199 small town called Ukuipa. Why you caipa u Kaipa, I 140 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.959 think that's how you pronounce that. And our house was 141 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:29.240 ten or more miles away from town. It was an 142 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.679 older home on thirty five acres of land full of wildlife, 143 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:36.080 and our only neighbors were a chicken ranch a quarter 144 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:40.240 mile away down the road. We lived there for six months, 145 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.480 and it was in the winter time and we had 146 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:46.559 settled in nicely. We were all sitting in the family 147 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.120 room watching TV one night when we heard a loud 148 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.799 thud on our roof. Well, whatever this was, it walked 149 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.879 over the roof, stopped at the chimney, and it all 150 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.720 went silent again. We all looked at each other, none 151 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.080 of us having any idea what it could have been, 152 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.399 and then we settled back down and we watched TV again. 153 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.440 An hour later, we all settled into our beds for 154 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.200 the night, and not long after that I heard my 155 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.399 father talking to my mother. He was telling her to 156 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:19.840 hand him a shotgun. My siblings and I came out 157 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.039 of our bedrooms and we looked down the hallway in 158 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.519 time to see my father go out the back door 159 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:29.039 with his shotgun in his hand. Right then we heard 160 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.799 the thud on the roof again, only this time it 161 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.759 was louder. It was like a giant was running on 162 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:38.320 two feet over the roof. It ran from the chimney 163 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.440 to the other side of the house, and it landed 164 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.799 on the ground with a massive thud that we could 165 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:47.399 feel all the way inside the house. The next night, 166 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.759 as we gathered together to watch TV as a family again. 167 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.799 My father returned from his usual Friday night poker game 168 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.480 and he was looking upset. He kept saying he saw 169 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:00.639 something walk out in front of of him as he 170 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:04.879 was pulling into our driveway. It was massive, he said, 171 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.080 and it stood on two feet, looked like it was 172 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.240 wearing a mink coat or a heavy hairy jacket from 173 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.320 head to toe. He said. It stepped out in the 174 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.440 middle of the road and paused for a second to 175 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.039 look at him, and then it stepped right over a 176 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.639 four foot fence like it was nothing, and it disappeared. 177 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:25.799 My dad said it was so scary that he stopped 178 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.080 dead in the middle of the road. When he got 179 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.960 his wits about him again, he drove as quickly as 180 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.759 he could down our driveway and he ran inside. Over 181 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.639 the next two months, every evening when we had the 182 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:42.080 fireplace going, all of us were sitting in the dining room, 183 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:44.840 we would hear something on the side of the house 184 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:47.799 climb on to the roof and walk on two feet 185 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:51.679 over the house and sit by the chimney. We figured 186 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:55.039 whatever this was it was trying to get warm. I 187 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.320 remember my dad and my oldest brother running out opposite 188 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.519 doors on different sides of the house to get a 189 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.279 look at this thing, and then we would hear it 190 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.120 sprint over the roof with its massive thudding feet, jump 191 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.399 off the house, and disappear into the night. During the summer, 192 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.200 when things were warming up, my mother would keep all 193 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:17.240 the windows open to get a nice breeze inside the house, 194 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.080 but late in the evenings, in the wee hours of 195 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:25.720 the morning, an extremely foul smell would waft inside. One night, 196 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.799 I was laying in my bedroom looking out my window. 197 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:31.799 I could always see the bright lights from the chicken 198 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:36.320 ranch in the evening, but that night there were no lights. Well. 199 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.879 I stared out the window for the longest time, thinking 200 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.679 maybe they had had a power outage and the lights 201 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:44.399 would come back on again at some point, but they 202 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:47.799 never did. Finally, I got out of bed and went 203 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.120 to my window, and I put my face right up 204 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:52.799 against the screen, and I looked out, and I heard 205 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:57.799 a horrendous growl. To this day, I tear up thinking 206 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:01.440 how frightened I was. I screaming out of my bedroom 207 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.720 to my parents' room. They followed me back to the window. 208 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.720 Shining clearly in the night were the lights from the 209 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.000 chicken ranch. Which meant something had been staring at me 210 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:14.519 the whole time that I was lying there, and it 211 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.320 was blocking my view. For the rest of that year 212 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.799 that we lived in that house, my siblings and I 213 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:26.240 slept in my parents' room. My brother and I were 214 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.639 on the side of the house cleaning up the garbage 215 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.279 because of the codies had gotten into it, or at 216 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.120 least that's what we thought. We were gathering the garbage 217 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.799 back into the bins when something started to throw little 218 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.159 sticks at us. We thought it was my father playing 219 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.720 games with us, and we hollered at him that he 220 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.279 wasn't scaring us. But when we confronted him later in 221 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.200 the house, he looked at us like we were crazy. 222 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.600 He said he had been on the couch watching TV 223 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.919 all that time. I made friends with a kid whose 224 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.639 parents owned a chicken ranch, and one night I got 225 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:02.840 to spend night at their place. He told me that 226 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.639 something had been getting into their chicken coops late at 227 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.000 night early in the morning. Also learned that they were 228 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.000 dealing with the very same mystery creature that had been 229 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.799 bothering us at our house, only it had been terrorizing 230 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.840 them for much longer. He told me that on many nights, 231 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:21.919 he and his parents had to sleep in the basement 232 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.080 because they were afraid that whatever it was outside was 233 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.399 going to get into the house. The way his father 234 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.000 described the creature was just like my father had. It 235 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.840 was hairy and tall, and it walked on two legs. 236 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.440 He said, the smell of this thing was so foul 237 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:40.879 that when they caught a sin of it, his father 238 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.679 sent them to the basement while he stayed upstairs with 239 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:47.039 the shotgun well. The next morning, I rushed home and 240 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.120 I told my parents, and that same day my dad 241 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.559 went and bought a couple of extra shotguns to have 242 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:57.120 on hand. Winter was coming again and it was starting 243 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:59.679 to get cold, and one night we heard the creature 244 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:03.519 walk on our roof again and straight to the chimney well. 245 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.159 My dad got the idea that he and my older 246 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.679 brothers should go out opposite doors again, only this time 247 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.480 they would shoot around from their shotguns. He was sure 248 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.000 this was scared of the thing away for good, but 249 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.519 it turned out to be a big mistake. Soon after 250 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.039 that night, my sister and I were playing on the 251 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.279 side of the house near the field where we would 252 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.240 run and play. We were digging in the dirt when 253 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:30.960 we heard a loud roar from the brush not far away. 254 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.360 We ran into the house and when we turned around, 255 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.000 we saw a large, dark figure in the field behind us. 256 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.919 My sister and I froze in our tracks and just 257 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.080 stared at this thing. It was so tall that its 258 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.240 kneecaps were just above the top of the bushes, which 259 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:52.200 were four feet tall. It started to walk toward us, 260 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.440 but we were so terrified we couldn't move, and right 261 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.200 then our German shepherd came running around the side of 262 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:02.519 the house and it charged at the creature. Seeing our 263 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.720 dogs snapped us out of it, and we ran inside 264 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:08.720 and we told our mother, so she locked the doors 265 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:14.240 and forbade us from going outside and grabbed her gun. Later, 266 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.039 when my father got home, we told him what happened, 267 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.639 and from that day on we were not allowed to 268 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.960 play outside without an adult present. We were so frightened 269 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:25.879 by what we had seen that we didn't want to 270 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:31.039 be outside after that anyway. Not long after that day, 271 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:34.080 we were sitting around watching TV together again with the 272 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:39.480 windows open, when in drifted that horrible foul smell. Each 273 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.879 of us turned and looked at each other in silence. 274 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.919 My father ushered us into the bedroom and told us 275 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:47.039 to settle in for the night while he and my 276 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.840 mother got the house locked up well. That night, we 277 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:53.799 tried to sleep, but there was no use. We were 278 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:58.200 all wide away lying there in silence. Since my parents' 279 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.120 bedroom was high enough off the they left the window 280 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.559 open for fresh air, but the smell still managed to 281 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:10.000 intensify and find its way into the bedroom. At one point, 282 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.480 my father stood up and looked out the screen on 283 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:16.159 the window. Now I remember hearing him muttering to himself 284 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:19.240 that the smell was really bad, when right in front 285 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.320 of him, a large, hairy creature stood up and stared 286 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.799 him right in the face. It had been kneeling down 287 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.279 beneath the window. My father yelled at the top of 288 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.879 his lungs that it was an ape man, and he 289 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:33.919 fell back on the bed, and the rest of us 290 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.799 jumped up in panic, and we turned on the lights. 291 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.960 After that night, these creatures harassed us all the time. 292 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.039 Something would hit the side of the house and it 293 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:47.960 would jump on the roof or even try our door handles. 294 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.840 One night, some of my parents' friends stayed over. My 295 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.279 dad had come up with this plan to have more 296 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.840 men in the house so that when this thing would 297 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:01.120 come around on the roof. Everybody would run out of 298 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:04.119 one of the five doors and catch this thing and 299 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:08.319 kill it. Sure enough, that thing jumped onto our roof 300 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.160 that night. But when everybody ran out of each of 301 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:13.759 the doors to catch it, all they could hear was 302 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.759 the massive thud of it hitting the earth again, and 303 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:20.759 it disappeared into the night. I spent two years of 304 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:24.720 my childhood living in fear in that house. We were 305 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:28.079 afraid to play outside, and when we were asked to 306 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:30.799 get the mail, we went out with our German shepherd. 307 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:35.039 We knew we were being watched, not just because we 308 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.559 could sense it, but because our dog would stop and 309 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:40.640 stare into the woods like he knew exactly what was 310 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.559 out there and was waiting for it to make a move. 311 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.400 The day we finally moved out of that house was 312 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.880 the happiest day of my life. Today, I'm fifty years old, 313 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:54.480 and every time I'm out in the mountains or driving 314 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:58.200 through the forest, I am on alert. It's not something 315 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:02.960 I can shake. That's how badly Bigfoot affected me. I 316 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.960 now live near the San Bernardino County mountains again, and 317 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.640 to this day I wonder if Bigfoot is still terrorizing 318 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:13.680 the family at the Chicken ranch, or if they decided 319 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:18.240 to move too. Whether your experience with Bigfoot is positive 320 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:21.319 or negative, it will stay with you for the rest 321 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:25.119 of your life. Oh I agree without one hundred percent. 322 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:30.200 If you see something like this, just forget that it 323 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:34.279 terrorizes your family every night. If you just see something 324 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:38.759 like this out in the woods, your outlook on nature 325 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:43.920 and wildlife and everything has to change. Everything has to change. 326 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:48.839 But this family was actually terrorized by a monster. I 327 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.319 know some people will say, oh, well, you're in their territory, 328 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.920 it's your fault, or they'll give the Bigfoot some kind 329 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.160 of excuse. I don't think there is any excuse for this. 330 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.640 I wonder if we ought not I don't know, start 331 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.880 slinging lead at these things and trying to get if 332 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.079 you can get them. These people couldn't even see it. 333 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.039 They had five men at the house one night trying 334 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:13.799 to kill it, and it was just gone, just gone. 335 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.160 So they're crafty, they're clever. They can get up on 336 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.880 your house, make all kinds of noise. It's like they 337 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:22.519 can see through the house. They know you're coming out, 338 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.039 so they leave. Maybe it's good that they know guns 339 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.319 are dangerous to them. So I don't know. I don't 340 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:31.720 know what I'm talking about, but it makes sense to me, 341 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.039 and as long as it makes sense to me, I'm 342 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:36.480 gonna say it all right. I love this story. It 343 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.119 was a great story, very detailed story. I certainly appreciate 344 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:46.440 the gentlemen for sending it. Thank you. In nineteen seventy two, 345 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.880 I was just old enough to carry a shotgun to hunt. 346 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.279 Our grandparents lived in a deep holler at the end 347 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:57.559 of a gravel road on the Kentucky Tennessee border. There 348 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.799 were three routes out of the haller, either through the 349 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:04.759 mouth of the holler or over two different mountains. My 350 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.480 cousins had twenty two rifles and I had a four 351 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.079 to ten shotgun. One day, we decided to hike up 352 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.759 the top of the ridge and shoot some squirrels for grandmother. 353 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:16.440 It took us some time to get there, but we 354 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.640 did not see any prey, so we started traveling along 355 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.519 the ridge and some of the fingers that branched to 356 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.759 it to see if we'd have better luck. We had 357 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:28.279 been gone for several hours when we saw the sky 358 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:33.160 changing quickly to a terrifying black. We started back toward 359 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:35.440 the farm as quickly as we could so that we 360 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.119 could miss the storm, but we didn't go the way 361 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:41.039 that we came. We took a shortcut down the side 362 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.480 of the ridge to save some time. We had never 363 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.079 been in this part of the mountains, and actually we 364 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:50.640 were lost, and with the storm raging behind us, we 365 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.599 realized we weren't going to make it back to the 366 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:55.960 farm without getting wet, and worse than that, we were 367 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:58.319 afraid that we were going to get struck by lightning. 368 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.519 Ran through some of the dense thickets until we found 369 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.039 what appeared to be a small abandoned house. We sprinted 370 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.799 to the house and ran onto the broken down porch, 371 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.880 just as the rain started. We shouted to see if 372 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:17.079 anyone was home, but there was no answer. We weren't surprised. 373 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:19.599 There was a thick layer of dirt and dust that 374 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:22.960 was left on the floor. There was some old furniture 375 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.640 in there, and ten cooking utensils. Well. We did some 376 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.359 snooping around to see if we could find any treasures. 377 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:34.200 As a storm intensified outside and the lightning became more frequent, 378 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:39.240 then we gravitated to the windows. There in the darkness, 379 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:42.279 we could not see anything beyond the steps of the porch, 380 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:46.400 and as we looked out, the sky lit up. There 381 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:49.480 just fifty feet in front of the porch stood an 382 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:53.039 older man with a jacket and a hat on. He 383 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:55.480 was holding an axe in one hand and a rope 384 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:59.880 in the other. The sky darkened and it lit up again, 385 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.519 but there was nobody there. We stepped back from the 386 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:05.559 windows to the center of the room and we heard 387 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:09.920 footsteps on the porch. Mike, the oldest of us, yelled 388 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:12.039 out that we all had guns and we knew how 389 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.680 to use them. Shortly after that, we heard hounds baying 390 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:19.960 in the distance, and the back door burst open. We 391 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:22.960 jumped and we moved closer together, but when we looked 392 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:26.640 there was nobody there. But we stood there wondering what 393 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.240 was happening. And then we heard heavy footsteps walk across 394 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:34.559 the room from the corner. The lopsided rocking chairs started 395 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:38.559 to rock back and forth. As if that wasn't enough 396 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:42.799 to stop a young man's heart, the screaming started. It 397 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.880 was a woman crying for her life, and it sounded 398 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.079 like something was killing her. And then there was a 399 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.039 massive clap of thunder and a flash of lightning just 400 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.119 outside the house, and a massive poplar tree came crashing 401 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.599