WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.720 At this point, the screaming noise, the yelling noise, was 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.360 way closer, and it was just so uncomfortable. 3 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:09.480 Like I'm like, this is weird. You know. 4 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:12.400 When I stood up, this thing yelled down at me 5 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:15.240 like it was standing above me. I mean, I thought 6 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.440 that was it, Like, I mean, this thing was standing 7 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:21.039 next to me. They're screaming. I'm screaming, like we're freaking 8 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.679 the crap out. The moment where I realized that we 9 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.480 were dealing with some type of like bigfoot is when 10 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.760 he pushed his hand down on the tent. And that's 11 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:31.559 when I looked over at my roommate Tray, and I'm like, 12 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:33.119 we're deep into. 13 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:34.719 This, like that we're in something here. 14 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:36.600 And he's like, that's a human hand, and I'm like, 15 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.399 that's a legitimate, five fingered human hand. 16 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.600 And this thing was huge. 17 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:46.119 I mean, I can't describe to you the feeling of 18 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:49.119 this and how absolutely terrifying it was. 19 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:24.400 Yeah, let's just jump right into it. If you don't 20 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:28.359 mind introducing yourself, Maybe tell a little bit about yourself 21 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:31.840 and how you ended up on the internet posting your 22 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:32.680 big foot encounter. 23 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.200 So, yeah, my name is Isaiah Syler. I'm actually originally 24 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.680 from Oregon. Spent most of my life in the woods 25 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:41.560 all through Oregon. 26 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.439 Montana, Colorado. 27 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.640 You know, pretty aware of you know, of course, every 28 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.519 animal and their sounds and all sorts of stuff. So 29 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:54.000 definitely not novice in this area. But in nineteen ninety nine, 30 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.680 my entire family, I have two brothers, one sister, my mom, 31 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.280 and dad, we all moved to Pensacola, Flora so that 32 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:06.599 my dad could go to college and get his pastoryal degree. 33 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:11.360 So that's how we got to Florida. Just kind of 34 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.000 moved around the United States a little bit. When I 35 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.000 got out of my own, I graduated and I was 36 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.680 in college by sixteen, seventeen years old, so I was 37 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:22.479 out on my own pretty quick, just because they raised 38 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.120 us to be adults instead of kids, so I was 39 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:29.000 pushed out of the nest a little early. But yeah, 40 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:33.120 we sought off on this adventure and became Floridians. Ended 41 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.560 up marrying a local, having five kids, ran my own 42 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.800 renovation company for ten years, and now I'm. 43 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.879 Just a simple sales associate for bathfitter. 44 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:46.319 But I sitting there the other day and I just 45 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.639 honestly thinking about that story. And you know, from time 46 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.759 to time I think about it and just like think, 47 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.000 you know, that is absolutely the craziest experience I've ever 48 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.479 had in my life. I told a couple people here 49 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.879 and there, I mean just around a campfire, that's that's 50 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.840 a pretty prime story around a campfire, and and you know, 51 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.840 just at random, but probably maybe three or four people. 52 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:11.199 And then yeah, just sitting there and I'm like, you 53 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.840 know what, I bet a lot of bigfoot enthusiasts would 54 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.319 want to hear this. And one of the reasons, of course, 55 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.479 I didn't come out with it earlier, was just how 56 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.879 crazy it is. I mean, I researched, and we went 57 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.800 online and I mean just really scoured the internet at 58 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:33.520 that time to find other people experiencing similar. 59 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:34.039 Things than we did. 60 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.039 And we did find a few videos that had the 61 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:40.360 same scream, which just gave us chills down our spine, 62 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.280 but none of them really had that temperature change, so 63 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:47.039 that really freaked us out. And then it was just 64 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.840 how interactive a bigfoot got with our campsite and our 65 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:56.360 tent and all those things, and so it was definitely 66 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.039 pretty intriguing. But but yeah, I was just sitting there 67 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.840 and then I'm like, I think it's time I really 68 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.120 at this point don't really care what people think. 69 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.199 About me on social media. 70 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.199 So that's I'm past that stage in my life. So 71 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:10.759 I think that probably played a little bit into it 72 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:11.199 as well. 73 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.439 But yeah, take us back, man, what happened when where 74 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:16.399 all the good stuff? 75 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:18.199 Yeah? 76 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.720 So it was just three friends and I it was 77 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.800 my roommate, his girlfriend, and then just a buddy of ours. 78 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:28.759 And in two thousand and five, in August, we were 79 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:30.920 thinking about something to do. We all had the weekend off, 80 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.120 and man, we just thought, you know, what better way 81 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:37.399 to spend this then just go float down Blackwater. And 82 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:39.319 I don't know if any of your listeners ever been 83 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:41.560 to Blackwater River, which a few of the comments on 84 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.399 those those Facebook pages really kind of gave me an 85 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.079 idea that there's a lot of people in this area 86 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:50.480 that that listened, but you know, they know Blackwater and 87 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:54.600 it's just beautiful. It's it's so quiet, relaxing, it's just 88 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:56.959 a really nice float. So we thought, you know, what 89 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.879 better way to experience that weekend than go further up 90 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.759 where you don't have as many rednecks and uh, because 91 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:06.720 it is what we call it, one of the redneck 92 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:08.079 rivieras of Florida. 93 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:11.920 But uh, it's so much fun. But so we went up. 94 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.720 We're like, man, that first day is going to be 95 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:14.480 super relaxing. 96 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.439 Second day, you know, we're just gonna float around with 97 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.920 other people in the river and talk and make new friends. 98 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.480 And and so we drove I believe it was seven miles, 99 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.040 but I could be mistaken in the mile enge, but 100 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:31.240 we drove seven miles past the main location where you 101 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.800 put in on Blackwater River and uh, you know, obviously 102 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.199 parked parked a car there and and then had our 103 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.839 cars parked and and the end zone at Adventures Unlimited, 104 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.480 which is the main location where everybody pretty much gets 105 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.879 out of the river and there's a kind of a 106 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:52.040 little theme parks thing going on over there. Uh but yeah, 107 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.240 so or more of an adventure park. But uh, so 108 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.600 we set off and we got in the water, and 109 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.879 not even I would say, an hour into the float, 110 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.439 we just kept hearing way off in the distance this 111 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.959 this weird scream, and it really we laughed about it 112 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.680 because it was like an old man and like a 113 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.120 gorilla at the same time. 114 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:14.439 It was just really weird. 115 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.639 And so we were having kind of little debates back 116 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.040 and forth on what it could be because we do 117 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.759 have bobcats in that area and bore and you know, 118 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.439 there's a lot of animals in that area that make 119 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:25.240 some cool noises. 120 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.959 So I couldn't really put my finger on anything that 121 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.519 it was. So it concerned me just a little bit. 122 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.600 And you know, the further we went down the river, 123 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.319 the closer this thing got, and we started to get 124 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.439 a little bit concerned, and we're like, man, this thing 125 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.000 is getting closer, but it was just still far enough off. 126 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:42.839 You can hear the echo. 127 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.240 I mean, like you can tell that it's still probably 128 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:49.199 a mile or so away or further. And and so 129 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.879 came around an embankment on one part of the river 130 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:56.399 and there's just this big, beautiful beach enough for all 131 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.560 of us kind of set our tents up in privacy 132 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.360 and made it can fire. There was actually already a 133 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:03.839 campfire there, so someone used that beach at one time, 134 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.319 and and some old beer cans and things just laying 135 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.639 in the sand, and so it kind of cleaned up 136 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:13.000 the beach and UH started getting the wood and everything 137 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.519 for the fire. And and I went back into this 138 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:19.079 area on the right side of this beach, and there 139 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.800 was these four skinny trees and they're pretty close to 140 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.399 each other. And someone stacked these trees, I mean actually 141 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.639 pretty nicely in the four trees and making a wall 142 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.000 in This wall was probably seven or eight feet tall, 143 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:34.160 and it was impressive. 144 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.399 I mean, I was like, someone really took some time 145 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:37.360 and attention in doing this. 146 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.759 And then I noticed on both sides of the trees 147 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.759 that were stacked that these trees were twisted like someone 148 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.800 would you know, take a twig or something and twist 149 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.319 it until it comes off the branch. 150 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.319 And man, that that just blew my mind. 151 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.920 I'm like, man, what kind of power would you need 152 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:57.120 or some type of machine that would grab a tree 153 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:57.639 or do that. 154 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.000 So I called and called everybody over there. 155 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:01.560 They took a look at it, and then obviously we 156 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.959 all agreed obviously no one someone doesn't want us to 157 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.240 go back into that area. And there was there was 158 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.120 like a walking path on the other side of this, 159 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:13.720 and uh so it was weird because I mean, obviously 160 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.480 you could just walk around this wall, so there was 161 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.600 no fence or man made anything. It was like some 162 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.519 something intentionally did this just to say I don't need 163 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:23.879 a need a fence. 164 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.000 Yeah, kind of like just blocked off the walking path 165 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:31.040 right there, leading leading out of the camping area or. 166 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:34.480 Yeah, leading out of the camping area in the woods. 167 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.200 And uh and and so we were like, all right, 168 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.360 you know, respect whoever's property this is now that That 169 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:44.320 thing that was kind of crazy was there was no 170 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:46.840 cell phone signal out we're here. We were so far 171 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.600 up and obviously in two thousand and five we don't 172 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.639 we didn't have really the cell towers or the cell 173 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.879 phones we have today. But I mean it was just 174 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:56.080 all on on our phones. 175 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.679 It was X. And there was no docks. 176 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.759 Typically in Blackwater River when there's a property on black 177 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.159 Water you got a little dog and things. 178 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.919 You can see the house right and there was just nothing. 179 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.879 For for hours when we were floating, and uh and 180 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.720 so we kind of thought, and we didn't see on 181 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.480 the map when we looked it up online, we didn't 182 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.840 see on the map any houses. 183 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:17.039 In this area. 184 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.480 But but still I was like, it's probably some someone's 185 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:20.679 hunting camp or something like that. 186 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.519 We'll leave it alone. And uh so we. 187 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:25.679 Settled down, get everything set up, put our tents up 188 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:29.360 and everything, and uh pulled out. We had a cooler 189 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.799 beers and stuff and pulled that out and at this 190 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:36.159 point that the screaming noise, the yelling noise, was way closer, 191 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.600 and it was just so uncomfortable. Like I'm like, this 192 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.320 is weird, you know, but you know, you've been on 193 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.159 one hundred different camp camping trips. You hear yells and 194 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.159 screams and things like that, howling, it never really comes 195 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:48.960 into your camp. 196 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.000 It's very real, rare if something does do that. 197 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.559 And uh, and so it was still kind of just 198 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:58.919 writing it off like whatever, it's just some some animal 199 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:02.159 out there. And I was I was a little bit nervous, 200 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:05.279 so I only drank a couple of beers. My other 201 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.000 buddy he just I mean down as many beers as 202 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:13.000 he can, passed out in his tent. He was out by. 203 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.480 He's just an extreme guy, so he was out by 204 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:19.679 like nine thirty something like that. And then it was 205 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:23.080 just my roommate and his girlfriend and we're sitting around 206 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:26.000 the campfire and just talking and we just kept getting 207 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.679 interrupted for about an hour or so from this scream. 208 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.399 And so finally late at night ten ten thirty or something. 209 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.200 You know, I'm kind of guessing at the time frame 210 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.759 because it was two thousand and five, a little a 211 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:46.519 little further out then my memory goes in those small details, right, 212 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.480 you know, started setting to the can camp up, putting 213 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.480 the cooler where it needs to be so that no 214 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:55.720 animals got the food and all that stuff and got 215 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.200 in our tents. And at this point it was pretty 216 00:10:58.200 --> 00:10:59.879 close and very uncomfortable. 217 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:02.840 I'm like, guys, should we worry about this scream? 218 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:05.399 I mean, this thing has to be just a football 219 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:06.440 field away or something. 220 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.600 And it was loud, I mean, it was just weird. 221 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:14.000 And my buddy, my roommate, he and I'm trying not 222 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:17.879 to use his names, but he just was the most 223 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.720 skeptical person in the world. I mean, we all are 224 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.440 Christians and we believe in God and stuff, but I 225 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.399 would have to convince them God exists like every other week. 226 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.120 Like this guy was the most skeptical person about everything. 227 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.679 And so he's like, nah, I don't worry about it. 228 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:34.240 It's just a bear this or that. And he's never 229 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:36.240 he's never lived in the woods, So I'm. 230 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:38.759 Like, it's not a bear, man, Unless this thing's broken, 231 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:39.799 it's not a bear. 232 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.879 From the first time that you heard the scream until 233 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.519 this point, how much time has passed? 234 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:52.120 That was probably one o'clock in the afternoon till ten 235 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.559 ten thirty at night, So it's been going on for 236 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:57.759 a really long freaking tient. Yeah, that ain't an animal, 237 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.080 Yeah no, And that's why I was like, guys, like 238 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.879 you don't understand, Like animals don't scream that long like these. 239 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.159 This is not normal. 240 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:08.879 And uh, the weird thing that just I've always thought 241 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:11.960 for years is like this thing was a really really 242 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:15.080 really really far away what attracted it to us? 243 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:17.240 That's that's what really intrigued me. 244 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:20.039 Unless we walked into his territory and it was just 245 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:23.519 by chance that we were. We were in his property 246 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.600 and he wasn't happy about it. 247 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:29.240 But like from from how far he was off. 248 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.639 Which knowing how big he was, I mean, he could 249 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.159 probably run a pretty good distance without you know, or 250 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:37.799 in a short period of time. 251 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.360 But that always and you know, obviously I've had a 252 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:41.039 lot of time. 253 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:44.399 To think about this, but uh, just just interesting that 254 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.039 it would do it for that period of time. It 255 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:50.399 would stop for like an hour or so in different intervals, 256 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.720 but we weren't paying attention, but then we would just 257 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:54.360 hear it again, you know, but it was there was 258 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.480 breaks in between. Yeah, but uh, but at this point, 259 00:12:58.519 --> 00:12:59.960 you know, we were in our tents, were laying there. 260 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.360 I couldn't sleep because this thing was screaming and they 261 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.799 were all giggling and talking in their tent, and so 262 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:08.360 I was like, man, I just I'm gonna get a 263 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.120 bottle of water, and I'm just gonna, you know, just 264 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.000 try to try to ease my mind in some way. 265 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:15.720 Just just go get a drink of water. So I 266 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.279 got out of my tent and asked them if they wanted. 267 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:18.639 A bottle water. 268 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.879 Walked across the beach and it was about I don't know, 269 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.480 I don't even remember what I what I said on 270 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.919 the video, probably fifty or so yards away from our tent, 271 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.799 and I grabbed the three bottles of water, and when 272 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.200 I stood up, this thing yelled down at me like 273 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.919 it was standing above me. And there was there was 274 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.480 like the shrubbery and kind of like some bushes and 275 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:45.879 stuff near our camp, like or where the where I 276 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.519 was standing, and so that was probably six or seven 277 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:53.159 feet away, and this thing was standing in those bushes 278 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.240 and it screamed down at me, and it like, I mean, 279 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.759 I can't describe to you the feeling of this and 280 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.759 how absolutely terrifying it was. I mean, I thought that 281 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.120 was it, Like, I mean, this thing was standing next 282 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:12.159 to me, and I just with everything inside of me, 283 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.759 I just took off, running towards their tent, got inside 284 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.039 of it. 285 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.440 And at this point they're screaming. 286 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.840 I'm screaming, like we're freaking the crap out trying to 287 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.639 figure this out. His girlfriend's crying like, oh my gosh, 288 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:29.639 it was just horrible. It was like a horror movie. 289 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:34.200 I mean seriously. And then it was when we heard 290 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.360 the footsteps. So we heard the footsteps and it started 291 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.840 walking towards our tent and the temperature changed. That's when 292 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:46.120 I mean, like, I've experienced a lot of things in 293 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.720 my life. We've done a lot of inner city ministry, 294 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:51.600 where you know, one of the things we say in 295 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.240 the inner city is darkness doesn't hide. We've seen a 296 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.879 lot of weird stuff and things that I can't explain, 297 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:59.679 and so I kind of knew at this point that 298 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.679 we were dealing with something that was way deeper than 299 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:06.080 just like an animal or like even just a bigfoot 300 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:10.639 messing with us. Like there was some spiritual kind of 301 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:14.360 thing in this and and it that that's what really 302 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.440 like put me into a place where I'm like Lord, 303 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.200 I'll never drink again. I'll never this is it, Like 304 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.159 I'm in your hands, take the wheel, Jesus, you know, 305 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.559 but uh, I did like trying to make sense of 306 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.679 that your brain. I mean, you just feel like you're 307 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.759 going crazy. And this thing's walking towards our tent and 308 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.759 you can you can feel the footsteps and hear the footsteps, 309 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.559 and I'm I'm doing the calculations in my head. I'm like, 310 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.320 this thing is heavy. I mean, if anybody's ever walked 311 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.919 in that beautiful white sand at black Water, I mean 312 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:46.759 in the area we have the whitest beaches in the 313 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.799 world in Pennsicul, Florida, pearly white beaches, and there the 314 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.080 sand is so soft, it's not like an East Coast 315 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.480 sand and and so man, Yeah, to to make any 316 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:59.679 type of movement or feel that in the sand. 317 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.200 You got to be hundreds of pounds. 318 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.320 And it walked up to our tent and that's when 319 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.840 we all just kind of laid down, and his girlfriend 320 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:15.120 buried her head into his his arms, and and it 321 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.120 just started screaming at our tent as loud as it could, 322 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.360 smacking it, I mean, trying to push it. But obviously 323 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.200 it's a tent and it's staked down so it's not 324 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.440 go anywhere, but he was like pushing the sides of it. 325 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.440 And then and I'm just looking up, like what do 326 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.279 I do about this? I mean, I'm my roommate's yelling 327 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:35.559 at it to stop, but I don't think that's working. 328 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:41.399 So when I the moment where I realized that we 329 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.200 we're dealing with some type of like bigfoot, is when 330 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.159 he pushed his hand down on the tent. And that's 331 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.919 when I looked over at my roommate Tray and I'm like, 332 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:53.399 we're we're deep into this, like that we're in something here. 333 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.240 And he's like, that's a human hand, and I'm like, 334 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.639 that's that a legitimate five fingered human hand. And this 335 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:05.160 thing was huge, like he can that thing just could 336 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:07.119 probably close fist of basketball. 337 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:09.480 And then the hand was so big, like it was 338 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:10.079 so big. 339 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.839 I mean, just again, our brains like trying to make 340 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.960 sense to this, but it just wasn't. And so laying 341 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.359 in that tent, it walked around the tent, it would 342 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.119 walk away from the tent. It sounded like he was 343 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.480 messing with our other Buddi's tent. But of course he 344 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.160 was like dead to the world. I don't know how 345 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:29.960 in the world that guy did not wake up, but 346 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.440 you can hear his tent moving around, and so we were 347 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.519 like hoping that he wasn't like opening that tent or 348 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:36.400 like do. 349 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:37.559 Anything to him. 350 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:43.559 It just walked around our campsite, screaming, throwing things, ripping stuff. 351 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.440 It ripped this is It just blew my mind at 352 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:48.839 the sheer power that it ripped our cooler in half. 353 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.599 It wasn't like it ripped the lid off and like 354 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.200 then ripped and you know, like that it was closed 355 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:57.799 and this thing looked like our cooler. It was a 356 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:00.440 typical Igloo cooler. It wasn't some you know, nice one. 357 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.799 But uh, it like twisted and ripped this thing in half. 358 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.559 And uh and then that we found out the next morning. 359 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.400 But uh, and it came back to our tent. 360 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:10.119 Uh. 361 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.279 At this point, the second time it came to our tent, 362 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.640 there was a bush behind our tent and it was 363 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:17.480 pretty close to our tent, and he just ripped that 364 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:18.119 thing in half. 365 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.599 Like you just hear the snap whoosh, and you can see. 366 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.279 The side of the tent move because he just ripped 367 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.000 the roots right out of the ground and uh, and 368 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.160 then started pushing down on our tent again, screaming at 369 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.319 our tent. And man, at this point, I felt like 370 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.640 I was almost numb to the experience because it was 371 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:35.559 going so long. Like I'm just sitting there like that, 372 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.240 there's nothing I can do in this, in this situation, 373 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.400 and uh, you know Grant, uh my buddy or my 374 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.119 roommate Tray and I we just we were along for 375 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:49.000 the ride, and his girlfriend the same Sustas buried her 376 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.839 head the whole time and crying and screaming and stuff 377 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.680 like that. And uh, and then I heard it walk 378 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.279 across the river and then you hear just like snapping 379 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:02.599 and breaking for the rest of the night and him screaming, 380 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:04.960 and he wasn't screaming as loud as he was before. 381 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.000 It was like he was getting over it or over 382 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.640 over it or something. But uh, this is snap snapping 383 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:14.039 and screaming. And so I finally fell asleep, I don't 384 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.400 know what time, but woke up and the sun was out, 385 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:19.400 and I'm like, man, you know. 386 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.359 It's over. I can't believe like that happened. 387 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:24.960 And we lived through it, and so got out of 388 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.880 my tent, and uh, you know, the area was littered 389 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:33.160 with massive footprints. I mean, these things were huge footprints, 390 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.400 and I'm like, you know, then kind of like realizing 391 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.599 that we did actually have a big foot experience like this, 392 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:41.880 this is that. 393 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.319 That creature, you know. And the temperature was back that 394 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:45.799 was perfectly normal. 395 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:49.119 And uh, so I knew it wasn't a cold front 396 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:51.799 unless it was some weird like couple hour cold front, 397 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.960 which I've never experienced in Florida, but uh, but I 398 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:56.319 guess it could be. 399 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:56.759 I saw it. 400 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:58.440 I actually saw that on one of the comments, and 401 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.599