1 00:00:08,519 --> 00:00:11,679 Speaker 1: My name is Randy Ritchie. I'm fifty eight years old. 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,359 I'm an ordained minister and had been ministering for twenty 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,879 four years. I'm a logger, farmer, and I'm a strong man, 4 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,719 you know, the kind that tears phone books into flips 5 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:28,079 cars by hand, and bends steel bars, etc. While preaching 6 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,199 the gospel along with it. I have lived on the 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,520 same farm all my life, and what I'm about to 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,119 tell you is the God's honest truth. I live in 9 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,039 south central Kentucky, and all of these encounters except two, 10 00:00:42,679 --> 00:00:46,640 were within three miles of each other. My first encounter 11 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:49,840 was in nineteen seventy two, when I was ten years old. 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,280 My parents and I were coming home one night. We 13 00:00:53,399 --> 00:00:56,479 lived on a large farm, as I have all my life. 14 00:00:57,359 --> 00:00:59,880 We were driving down the little country gravel road that 15 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,200 goes through our farm. I was in the back seat 16 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,879 and my parents were up front in our car. My 17 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,719 mother called out to my dad, you didn't see that 18 00:01:09,799 --> 00:01:13,519 big black thing step across the road. She said. It 19 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,680 cleared the road in two steps. My father turned around 20 00:01:17,719 --> 00:01:20,439 at our shop and drove back, but it was already gone. 21 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,200 He told my mother that she was crazy. Some years later, 22 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,439 she told me that my grandmother had told her for 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,799 years that they had seen something. From time to time 24 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:37,359 she referred to it as the old Man. Several years 25 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,120 went by, and I grew into a teenager and then 26 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:43,760 a young man. But years before that there was more 27 00:01:43,879 --> 00:01:49,480 to tell. My second encounter, a mile and a half 28 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:52,959 behind our farm, was in an abandoned old rock quarry 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,959 from the nineteen forties. My friend Mark and I one 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,000 day hiked down to the old quarry with Daisy BB's 31 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,480 guns in hand. The old quarry was grown up with 32 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,359 trees and bushes, pretty much what we would called the 33 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,680 thicket here in south central Kentucky. The old quarry was 34 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:13,800 one hundred and twenty five feet long, seventy to eighty 35 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:18,159 feet wide, and sixty five feet deep. My friend and 36 00:02:18,199 --> 00:02:20,479 I were on the left side, about a third of 37 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,400 the way down from the top, admiring the beauty of 38 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:28,280 the wilderness, and then it happened. We heard the most 39 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:32,280 god awfulous roar which turned into a blood curdling yell 40 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,439 that would stand the hair up on your head. Mark said, 41 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:39,879 what was that? I don't know, I replied, And then 42 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,520 whatever made that awful sound did so again. Let's get 43 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,120 out of here, Mark exclaimed, I wanted to see what 44 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,840 it was. Me, being a twelve year old boy, said 45 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:52,879 we can shoot it in the eye with our baby guns. Well, 46 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:56,319 how stupid was that? And then it yelled again and 47 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,520 started throwing rocks from the bottom of the old quarry. 48 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,439 It hit the side that we were on from some 49 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:06,400 distance away with rocks the size of soft balls or larger. 50 00:03:07,479 --> 00:03:10,879 It roared one more time, and my friend said to 51 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,120 hell with this and took off in a flash down 52 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:16,960 the side of the hill back to the holler. I 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,400 took off right behind him, and we ran for three 54 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,080 quarters of a mile before we just collapsed in a 55 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,840 pasture field. But a large bull came down off the 56 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:29,240 grassy hill right for us, so we pulled ourselves up 57 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,240 and climbed a large tree, wondering if that would get 58 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,319 us past the bull and the thing that ran us 59 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,919 off from the old quarry. We finally got down and 60 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,159 got home. No one would believe us, except my mother 61 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:47,080 because she'd seen something a few years prior. We went 62 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,680 to school the next week and told our close friend 63 00:03:49,719 --> 00:03:52,840 about our encounter. He would be the man who would 64 00:03:52,919 --> 00:03:55,560 later be the best man in my wedding, and his 65 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,560 name was Wendell. I said, I wanted to go back 66 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:00,560 down to see if I could see what it was, 67 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,120 but I wanted someone to stay with me. Wendell said 68 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:06,360 if I'd let him go, he would take his twenty 69 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,039 gage shotgun and that he would not run. Well, of course, 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,560 I agreed. Wendow Len and I took a hike down 71 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:16,399 the old quarry, and I decided that we would go 72 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:18,920 in towards the top of the old quarry, this time 73 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,120 about thirty feet above the opening. As we were hiking 74 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,879 towards it, we were stopped in our tracks by the 75 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,600 same roar that again turned into a blood curdling scream 76 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:32,319 that you could feel hit you in the chest like 77 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,680 a brick. I turned back to see Wendell's reaction. He 78 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,000 with a shotgun, was now in a crowd's position, and 79 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,480 he was trembling. I turned back towards the sound, and 80 00:04:43,519 --> 00:04:46,600 here it came again. I turned back to see Wendell 81 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,199 tearing through the briers with a shotgun in hand, obviously 82 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,560 not wanting anything to do with whatever was roaring. And 83 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:57,600 so there I was alone with my rifle in my hand, 84 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,240 and I took out right behind him. And when we 85 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,720 got home. He said, what in the world was that. 86 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:09,600 All I could say was, I don't know. So we 87 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,519 told our neighbors. They were some of our running buddies, 88 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,839 one Scotty, who was like a little older, and then 89 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:19,240 there was me and one a little younger, Tracy. Scotty 90 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:21,959 was bold and said, by God, I'll stay as long 91 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,319 as I have a gun. So he was all in 92 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:27,120 for us to take the hike back down, and my 93 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:33,360 fourth encounter was about to begin. Two weeks after Wendell 94 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,160 and I had gone in, with all three of us 95 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:39,000 having guns in hand, we went back and I took 96 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,480 the lead. I took the same path that Wendell and 97 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:45,720 I took. As we closed in on the top, I 98 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,279 was standing less than two feet from where I was 99 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:53,800 standing the previous time, the same roar, yell, scream all 100 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,040 over again, and I turned to see Tracy and Scotty 101 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:01,839 and they were already retreating fast. In less than six 102 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,600 weeks time, I had personally experienced something life changing. I 103 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,319 didn't go back for years, but what I experienced in 104 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,120 those weeks is why there is a smith in Western 105 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:16,279 forty four magnum pistol in my bedside nightstand to this day, 106 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:22,720 Tyler and Justin's stories. Tyler said his brother Justin had 107 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,000 an encounter. As he was taking the garbage to the 108 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:28,959 end of the road on a dark night, something very 109 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,680 large spooked him. He caught a glimpse across the road 110 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,040 of something very large standing between two ponds. As he 111 00:06:37,079 --> 00:06:39,439 got back in the vehicle to turn the headlights on, 112 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,560 it stood up and ran. It left the fence in 113 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,240 two steps, and it was in the road and then 114 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,879 it left the fence on the other side. It startled 115 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,639 him pretty good, so he retreated back to the house 116 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:58,000 very quickly. In another encounter, Justin and another man were 117 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,439 out scouting for deer because the season would open soon. 118 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:04,040 They were at the end of a hollow in a 119 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,199 vast thicket when they came across a deer hanging from 120 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:11,040 its hindquarters in the middle of nowhere. If that wasn't 121 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,600 strange enough, its hindquarters were up to about twelve feet 122 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:18,040 in a tree, putting the deer's neck at six feet 123 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,759 above ground level, and that was too high for a 124 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:24,720 coyote or most dogs to reach. The deer's neck had 125 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,759 a large bike taken out of it. Justin and Tyler 126 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:33,240 also described another encounter involving their cousin James. So he 127 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,879 walked to his deer stand before daylight. This is the 128 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,319 same holler that separated our two farms. The hollow runs 129 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,600 by the springs from the old quarry, and James had 130 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:47,480 just climbed into his deer stand and heard the blood 131 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:52,639 curdling roar, yell, scream. He was so terrified that he 132 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,319 didn't move for about seven or eight hours. Tyler and 133 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,519 Justin had heard it also. Now he's gonna tell us 134 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,839 about Cody and Caitlin's encounters. Around that same time, my 135 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:10,120 good friend and neighbor and god son, Cody found a 136 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,160 structure made of cedar trees that had been bent and 137 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,600 broken to keep the wind and rain off of whatever 138 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,519 had been using it. Cody had also had an encounter 139 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,079 while frog gigging just up from the lake one night 140 00:08:23,199 --> 00:08:27,160 in the holler that parallels the old quarry. Large rocks 141 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,360 were thrown at them as they made their way up 142 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:33,879 the holler. Cody's wife also had her encounter around the 143 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,799 same time, as she was driving one night. Her sightings 144 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,480 were very close to where my mother had her sighting 145 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,080 some forty years earlier. The location is less than two 146 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:48,720 hundred feet apart. Caitlin recalls what she saw as very 147 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,159 large and tall. It stepped over a fence in front 148 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:55,440 of her and crossed the road. It turned to look 149 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,679 at her in the headlights, its eyes reflecting red, as 150 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,320 it stepped across the other fence. She never took that 151 00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:10,320 road home again. My fifth encounter, My next episode was 152 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,080 a few years later, when I was fourteen or fifteen. 153 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:16,480 I was with a friend of mine, Donovan, who had 154 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,080 lost his mother some years earlier and would come and 155 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,480 stay with us for a couple of weeks at a time. 156 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,600 He would later become our city's assistant chief of police. 157 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:29,159 We were on the backside of the farm where there 158 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,600 was a very steep hill in our woods. I was 159 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,799 climbing the hill in my Yamaha dirt bike, like a 160 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,360 lot of us here in Kentucky. Do Donovan was standing 161 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:41,720 at the top of the hill watching me climb over it, 162 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,799 and as I pulled up to start my third ascent 163 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,960 of the day, Donovan came running down the steep hill. 164 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,279 As he got to me, I saw that his eyes 165 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,200 were wide open and he was as white as a ghost. 166 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,559 We jumped on the back of the motorcycle, and he 167 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,080 says to me, go, go go. I said, what is it? 168 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,559 He said, please just go. So I tore out, and 169 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,000 when we got within sight of the house, I slowed 170 00:10:08,039 --> 00:10:11,720 down and stopped. He said what are you doing and 171 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,720 encouraged me to keep going. And I said, no, what 172 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,960 is it? He said, I saw it? You saw what 173 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,360 I said? He said it had to be what we 174 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,519 had heard a few years earlier, so we had my attention. 175 00:10:25,039 --> 00:10:27,519 And I said, well, what did it look like? He 176 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,919 said it was big and black, and it cleared the 177 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:35,639 border fence in just one step. And now his sixth encounter. 178 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:40,559 Fast forward a few years when we were nineteen years old, 179 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:44,159 myself and my friends Mark and Robin went back with 180 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,039 a solid agreement between all three of us that no 181 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,120 one would run. We all had high powered rifles in hand, 182 00:10:51,639 --> 00:10:54,039 and this was the first time that Mark had returned 183 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:57,279 to the old quarry. We took the hike down and 184 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,799 braved our way all the way to the inside of 185 00:10:59,799 --> 00:11:03,320 the old quarry and poised ourselves for a standoff that 186 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,759 we might encounter. We stood our ground for four hours 187 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,720 from two to six pm. When we retreated at dark, 188 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:17,639 we had seen or heard nothing and was the legend gone. 189 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,360 It would cross my mind from time to time, but 190 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,919 I saw and heard nothing for about thirty years until 191 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:31,039 I was in my late forties. Here's Tyler's encounter. My 192 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,960 neighbor Tyler, who had lived on the next farm over, 193 00:11:34,399 --> 00:11:37,080 had at one point given me the honor of performing 194 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,080 his wedding ceremony. He was over helping me unload the 195 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,000 firewood one day when he mentioned doing some deer hunting 196 00:11:44,039 --> 00:11:47,559 with his family. I casually said to him, well, don't 197 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,919 go down by the old Rock quarry without a gun. 198 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,320 And he looked at me with a funny look on 199 00:11:52,399 --> 00:11:54,919 his face and said, Randy, why would you say that? 200 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,519 While look back and said why would you ask like that? 201 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:04,320 He said, I didn't think anybody else knew. Now on 202 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,679 to Paul's story. This encounter is from one of my 203 00:12:08,799 --> 00:12:13,440 neighbors and Christian's Strength team members. This young man is 204 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,519 almost as big as a bigfoot. He's six feet seven 205 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,679 inches tall, weighs three hundred and eighty pounds, and wears 206 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:24,000 a size sixteen shoe. Paul was walking to his favorite 207 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:26,759 fishing hole one day when he heard a large stick 208 00:12:26,919 --> 00:12:30,480 break off to his right. He glanced over to see 209 00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:32,759 what he had made the noise and couldn't believe what 210 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,159 he was seeing. He was looking at a dark figure 211 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:40,039 that was crouched down, and he recalled its facial features, 212 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:45,039 including heavy eyebrows and dark eyes, and it was huge. 213 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,919 Paul kept walking, but sped up his pace to get 214 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,919 out of the area fast. Coming back from his fishing hole, 215 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,360 he stumbled upon a very large footprint in the wet ground. 216 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,960 It was filled with water from the night before, but 217 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:02,200 he said it was huge, huge. It made his size 218 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,960 sixteen look small. Paul wasted no time on his route 219 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,720 to get back home. Now this is Richie's next encounter. 220 00:13:11,879 --> 00:13:15,240 I think this would be encounter number seven in his forties. 221 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,720 When I was forty nine, I was coming home one 222 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:22,519 night from the gym about ten thirty pm. As my 223 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:25,919 boxer dog, Turbo and I walked up towards the house. 224 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,039 In the distance, I heard a distinctive, very familiar sound. 225 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:33,799 I got turbos still and leaned up against my home 226 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,720 and again heard the roar, yell scream that I'd heard 227 00:13:37,759 --> 00:13:41,279 so many years ago into my childhood. The hair on 228 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,279 the back of my neck stood up, and I said 229 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:47,360 to myself, it's back. I told two of my neighbors 230 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,720 and my wife Carolyn what I heard. We all dismissed it. 231 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,679 But the next year I turned fifty and I was 232 00:13:53,759 --> 00:13:57,519 diagnosed with a leaking aortic heart valve that could only 233 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,320 be taken care of by God or a heart urgent. 234 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:04,039 So I was in my backyard, in my hammock. We 235 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,879 live in a remote place, just a few farmhouses around. 236 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,799 It was on Tuesday night, around eleven PM. Carolyn was 237 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,840 already in bed. I was pouring my heart out in prayer, 238 00:14:17,039 --> 00:14:20,960 trying to reach the throne room of Heaven. I'm praying 239 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,639 hard out loud, and as I'm wailing through the trees, 240 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:29,360 I hear something repeatedly using something to strike a tree. 241 00:14:29,519 --> 00:14:32,320 I cried to remove it from my thoughts and my hearing, 242 00:14:32,399 --> 00:14:36,200 and I kept praying. The louder and harder I prayed, 243 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,519 the louder and faster the wood knocking got. When I 244 00:14:40,519 --> 00:14:44,159 would stop, it would stop. So I said to myself, 245 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,279 who in the world would be down in my holler 246 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,960 next to my house at this time of night and 247 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:52,559 on a Tuesday in the middle of July. So I 248 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,919 started putting it all together, the yelling, the rock throwing 249 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,159 and now the wood knocking, it can only be one thing. 250 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,840 I squatch a bigfoot or whatever you call it. I 251 00:15:02,879 --> 00:15:05,080 still don't know what I and my friends and my 252 00:15:05,159 --> 00:15:08,919 neighbors have experienced. But there's something out there now. I 253 00:15:08,919 --> 00:15:12,000 personally have never seen it, but I know what I heard. 254 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,559 It's big and it's real. I don't think it means 255 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:18,000 us any harm, but I would not want to corner 256 00:15:18,039 --> 00:15:22,679 it or provoke it. But there's actually more encounters here, 257 00:15:22,759 --> 00:15:26,360 so so let's keep going. I'm on page six of 258 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:32,559 his book, and this is entitled Clay's Encounter. Clay's story 259 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,120 is in Halfway, Kentucky, which is in Allen County. Clay 260 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,559 is also one of the original team members of My 261 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,519 Christian Strongman Team. Clay is a big man. He's six 262 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,159 foot five and he weighs two hundred and sixty pounds. 263 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:50,679 He's no sissy or coward. Clay's an avid deer hunter 264 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,559 travels all over the United States hunting big game. I 265 00:15:54,559 --> 00:15:57,399 would call him a professional big game hunter, and he 266 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,440 has all the trophies to prove it. He's been hunting 267 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,919 on one of the largest farms in Allen County. His 268 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,759 first encounter was a vocal while he was in his 269 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:11,600 deer stand overlooking a large bluff. The roar yell scream 270 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:15,519 was very loud and robust. Clay says the roar was 271 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:18,480 so loud that he said whatever made that sound was 272 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:22,559 really large. He was startled by the intense sound, and 273 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,120 he said to himself, what in the world is that? Clay, 274 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,759 being the sportsman he is, went back the next year 275 00:16:28,799 --> 00:16:31,360 to hunt for the big trophy buck. While in his 276 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,120 stand with a bow and arrow in hand, he heard 277 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,279 animals scurrying out of the large woods below the bluff 278 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,120 he's hunting, and then the same thing he witnessed the 279 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:45,000 year before, the roar, yell scream happened again. The deer 280 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,639 came running out first, they were followed by livestock, and 281 00:16:48,679 --> 00:16:53,080 then birds flew out. At this time, Big Clay decided 282 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,480 it was time to get his happy hind end down 283 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:58,799 and out of the tree stand. He hurried very quickly 284 00:16:58,879 --> 00:17:01,320 to his truck and reached treated and Clay said, he 285 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,639 didn't see it, but it had to be very big 286 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,960 to make chest shaking sounds like that that he heard. 287 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,880 Clay said, Wow, what else could it be other than 288 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:17,480 a bigfoot? Here's another encounter Seth's father and David's encounter. 289 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,400 One day, David was out on the farm doing his 290 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,799 farm work and he heard a sound that was not 291 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,200 familiar with anything he had heard before, and he had 292 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,559 been on this farm forty plus years. Whatever it was, 293 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,640 David said, it was very loud and had to be 294 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,920 coming from something really big. Seth said to his dad, 295 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,319 what in the world is that? He said, I don't know, 296 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:44,160 but we're going to the house. And here's Seth's encounter. 297 00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:48,839 Seth lives on a farm in Halifax, Kentucky, which is 298 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,880 in Allen County. His farm has been in his family 299 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,400 for three generation. The farm backs up to an even 300 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,759 larger farm, which is three hundred acres of wilderness. While 301 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:03,759 deer hunting one evening, Seth was sitting on the ground 302 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:07,319 leaning against the log when he heard something take a 303 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,480 step to his right. Seth looked over and raised his 304 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:15,039 deer rifle up and looked through the scope. He saw 305 00:18:15,079 --> 00:18:18,920 something that was around seven feet tall. It had long arms, 306 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,480 and it was all brown in color. While looking through 307 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,039 his rifle scope, Seth whistled and it looked right dead 308 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,799 at him for a few seconds, and then it just 309 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,759 kept walking away from him. Seth said he was proud 310 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:35,720 he kept walking because he didn't think his deer rifle 311 00:18:35,799 --> 00:18:40,480 would have taken it down. And then here is Seth 312 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:45,240 and Cooper's encounter. Seth and Cooper were out one night 313 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:49,000 coyote hunting, trying to call up some coyotes. Now, after 314 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,039 a while of calling, they laid down. Seth heard something 315 00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:55,480 coming through the woods and it was crashing through the 316 00:18:55,519 --> 00:18:58,400 woods and breaking down small trees and limbs. As it 317 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,599 was coming closer and closer, they were beginning to wonder 318 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,720 what it was. It was definitely not coyotes. It started 319 00:19:06,759 --> 00:19:09,400 getting closer and then it was right on top of them. 320 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,559 Cooper said, shoot it Seth. While laying down, Seth spun 321 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,400 over and pulled the trigger of his twelve gay shotgun 322 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:20,880 right at the sound, which was less than twenty feet away. 323 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,240 The minute Seth's shot, Cooper flicked the big light on 324 00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:28,519 and there was nothing there. They both said, where did 325 00:19:28,519 --> 00:19:31,200 it go? It was just right there. It was a 326 00:19:31,319 --> 00:19:35,880 very intense moment for both of them. And here is 327 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:40,559 Derek's encounter. This story comes from my neighbor that lives 328 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:42,759 about a mile down the road from me. But as 329 00:19:42,799 --> 00:19:45,279 the crow flies less than a mile from my farm. 330 00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:48,799 He's lived on the farm all of his life. This 331 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,160 is his encounter. When I was young, me and my 332 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:54,960 brother and a friend that was staying the night got 333 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:58,359 bored and went to the pond. As we did many times, 334 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,440 we would gather rocks and try to snaw up on 335 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:03,720 the frogs that line the banks of the pond. As 336 00:20:03,799 --> 00:20:06,400 anybody that grew up with a pawd knows, the frogs 337 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,400 would all jump in as soon as they knew a 338 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,839 predator was near. The goal was to sneak up on 339 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:13,799 the frogs and see if we could hit one before 340 00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:17,839 they all jumped in. After I'd thrown my stones, I 341 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,640 heard something in the woods. I turned to see a 342 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,480 hairy beast running on two legs through the forest, tearing 343 00:20:24,559 --> 00:20:27,799 saplings away side to side to make its way through. 344 00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:31,279 The breath was taken from me, and it's like everything 345 00:20:31,319 --> 00:20:34,720 else stood still when it was gone. I yelled that 346 00:20:34,759 --> 00:20:37,920 I had seen something running through the woods. No one 347 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,440 saw it, no one believed me. I just remember dark hair. 348 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,160 I had nightmares of were wolves for years after that. 349 00:20:45,839 --> 00:20:48,440 I had not been exposed to bigfoot at that time. 350 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,640 I was, however, exposed to the monster movies of were wolves. 351 00:20:53,079 --> 00:20:55,680 To my young eyes and mine, that's what it was. 352 00:20:56,759 --> 00:20:59,160 Let me just break in and say, that could have 353 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,279 been a dog man. If you're thinking werewolf subconsciously, maybe 354 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:05,799 that's what you saw, Derek, I don't know. I'm sorry 355 00:21:05,799 --> 00:21:10,440 to interrupt Randy's stories here. Let's go to the last story, 356 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:16,400 and it is called Matt Pettigo's experience. I'm the editor 357 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,880 and publisher of our local newspaper in Randy's hometown in Kentucky. 358 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:23,839 Randy is a good friend. He's a fine man and 359 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,400 as truthful a person as you will ever know. I'm 360 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,039 originally from northern California, and I still have relatives in 361 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:35,599 California and Oregon. In the summer of two thousand and nine, 362 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,759 I was visiting my now late grandfather in Bend, Oregon, 363 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,359 when I took a ride up into the nearby Cascade Mountains. 364 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,920 At an elevation of fifty four hundred feet above sea level, 365 00:21:48,039 --> 00:21:51,279 between two peaks high enough to host snow year round 366 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,440 lies Scenic Sparks Lake. It is a lake of snow 367 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,680 melt between the peaks and it fluctuates in size. Looking 368 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:06,200 for that perfect postcard landscape shot with my camera I 369 00:22:06,319 --> 00:22:09,240 ventured far out onto the dry lake bed until it 370 00:22:09,279 --> 00:22:12,960 began to get marshy. I leapt over a small stream 371 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,599 of clear, cold snow water draining into the main body 372 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:19,680 of the lake, and I landed on a small island 373 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:25,440 and into something unexpected. I weighed two hundred and sixty pounds, 374 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,000 and I estimate, landing from a jump that I hit 375 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:31,279 the packed sandy volcanic soil with the impact of over 376 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,920 three hundred pounds. My hiking boots sank in about an 377 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,559 inch into the dense soil, paling in comparison to the 378 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:43,880 footprint I was now seeing. For scale, I laid my 379 00:22:44,079 --> 00:22:47,880 six inch wide Panama Jack sunglasses beside it, and I 380 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,599 snapped this photo. The print was two inches deep, at 381 00:22:51,599 --> 00:22:55,759 one point fourteen inches long, and more than six inches wide. 382 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,519 Based on the soil condition and my jump, you can 383 00:22:59,559 --> 00:23:02,200 see my print on the left side of the tuft 384 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,640 of grass. Whatever made this print had to weigh over 385 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,000 five hundred pounds. What's more, whatever made the print had 386 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:12,960 dug its front toes into the soul as it walked, 387 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,160 ripping frontal soil upward and scrunching the other soul towards 388 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,480 the center of the print as it pulled its foot upward. Thus, 389 00:23:21,519 --> 00:23:24,559 whatever made the print seems to have had a hinged foot, 390 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:29,200 a trait often seen in gray apes. At the upper 391 00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:31,920 left of the print is the impression of a very 392 00:23:32,039 --> 00:23:35,759 large big toe. It doesn't show well in the photo, 393 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,359 but it had dermal ridges, the mark of natural skin. 394 00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:43,759 I saw nothing else, and I heard nothing strange, But 395 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,240 there it was a good reason for me to head 396 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,559 back to the car. I never knew what to make 397 00:23:49,599 --> 00:23:52,680 of the bigfoot mystery. Is it fact or fiction? I 398 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,400 can say with certainty that something large, heavy, and barefoot 399 00:23:56,519 --> 00:24:00,920 made this track in the wills of central Oregon. Randy 400 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,920 and his family, friends and neighbors, and thousands of other 401 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,680 people around the world and through the ages are seeing, hearing, 402 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,920 and experiencing something that science can't always explain. And, as 403 00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:17,480 Randy said in his conclusion, something is out there.