1 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: When I was a little girl around six years old, 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,679 I saw Bigfoot on my family's farm in southern Alabama, 3 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:21,600 fifteen miles from the Mississippi line in Marion County. I've 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,960 never forgotten it. It scared me more than anything before 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,440 that day or since I was an active child, sliding 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,159 down road ditches in that soft Alabama sandy clay and 7 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,960 climbing up into the barn loft and jumping out onto 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,399 the haywagon. My cousin and I did both of these 9 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:42,320 things all the time. The law always got switched on 10 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:44,719 the back of the legs for it by my grandmother. 11 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:48,000 She thought I was going to break my arm jumping 12 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:50,759 out of the hay loft, and of course sliding down 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,159 road ditches doesn't do much for one's clothing. My family 14 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,679 grew cotton huge gardens. We had many chickens and a smokehouse. 15 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:03,719 Every fall, my grandmother plowed with one or two mules, 16 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:06,799 which she harnessed up and guided as she hung onto 17 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:10,200 the plow behind them. I thought she was the most 18 00:01:10,239 --> 00:01:14,000 fascinating person that had ever lived. And being the only 19 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,120 young child on the farm, my grandmother always took me 20 00:01:17,159 --> 00:01:19,560 to the cotton field or to the garden with her. 21 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:23,319 I didn't mind, because I loved watching those huge mules, 22 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:26,280 listening to the way my grandmother would command them and 23 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,280 talk to them. Looking back, I suspect there was another 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,959 reason she took me with her to the cotton field 25 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,000 or into the garden. It was because she was afraid 26 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:37,840 of what would happen to me if she didn't have 27 00:01:37,879 --> 00:01:40,959 her eye on me. Not just because I was an 28 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,760 active child, but because strange things happened on that farm, 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,120 especially at night. In addition to the whooper will that 30 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:55,040 was very loud, I recall hearing strange whistlings. Sometimes there 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,719 would be something or someone outside that would bang on 32 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,680 the house, and the hound dogs would bar can yelp 33 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:03,200 and go up under the house and they would cry 34 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,439 as if something were hurting them or trying to get 35 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,919 a hold of them. My grandmother slept with her thirty 36 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:14,319 thirty Winchester rifles standing up by her bedpost. As a child, 37 00:02:14,439 --> 00:02:17,159 I never thought anything about all that because the rifle 38 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:20,680 was always there. But looking back, I wonder if there 39 00:02:20,759 --> 00:02:23,120 was another reason she felt the need to have that 40 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:28,039 rifle next to her as she slept. On a Sunday afternoon, 41 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,919 I went onto the side porch where the swing was. 42 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:33,800 I looked to my left down the barn path and 43 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,479 something caught my eye. It stepped out of the apple 44 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,919 orchard on the side of the path, and it walked 45 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,639 swiftly toward the house, looking directly at me on the swing. 46 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:47,240 But it was not a man. It was something I 47 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,759 had never seen before. I know it wasn't a bear either. 48 00:02:51,319 --> 00:02:55,240 It looked like a giant person covered in hair. I 49 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:58,879 was completely transfixed and I couldn't move, and I didn't 50 00:02:58,879 --> 00:03:02,639 know what to do. It's like time slowed down. Everything 51 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:05,240 was in slow motion, and I heard a voice in 52 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,560 my head shouting my name, telling me to run. But 53 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:12,520 the swing went forward and back and forward and back, 54 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,400 and I just sat there. I could not figure out 55 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:17,680 what the heck that thing was, but I knew it 56 00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:21,479 was coming after me. I finally came to my senses 57 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,439 and jumped out of the swing and ran to the 58 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:27,520 screen door and right to my grandmother. I was hysterical, 59 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:30,039 and I was pulling on her apron and jumping up 60 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,719 and down and saying, it's the big hairy man, It's 61 00:03:32,719 --> 00:03:36,120 the big hairy man. And she went with me back 62 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:38,439 to the side porch and looked all around, but there 63 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:42,479 was nothing anywhere. I went to my great grandfather and 64 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,639 I climbed up in his lap and I sat there 65 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,680 for a while. I never went on that side of 66 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,840 the house to the swing by myself again. I never 67 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:53,840 went into the musky dye vines to pit musky dines, 68 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,800 and I never went to the barn either. I was 69 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:01,240 so afraid I did not understand and what I had seen. 70 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,479 We had men in our family who were six foot 71 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,520 seven and six foot eight, and they would have looked 72 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,560 small next to this creature. All my life I wondered 73 00:04:11,599 --> 00:04:15,240 what it was, and I never got over it. But 74 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:18,639 I know now that bigfoot are real. They are everywhere. 75 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:21,720 They're in Alabama, and they're in in Tennessee, and they're 76 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:24,759 in Kentucky. We were on a hiking walk and a 77 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:28,720 nature sanctuary that closed at sunset, when out of nowhere, 78 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:32,399 something started throwing rocks at my children. It was a 79 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:35,519 warning to move along. That was the time for us 80 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,639 to go, and we left immediately. Now my family goes 81 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,360 hiking at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, but you 82 00:04:42,399 --> 00:04:45,199 couldn't pay me money to go there. There was a 83 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:47,759 couple in my community that went to the gorge and 84 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,680 they camped out. It was a windless, clear night sky 85 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:55,120 in the late summer, and it was still very warm. 86 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,959 A tree fell on their tent and killed them both. 87 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,439 As soon as I heard what had happened, I knew 88 00:05:02,519 --> 00:05:05,560 that that tree had not fallen. It was pushed on 89 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,800 to them. They were not supposed to be there. Be 90 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:13,000 wise and never go into the woods alone, and always 91 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:17,040 let people know where you are. Stay respectful of your environment. 92 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,680 It's in the realm of possibility that these creatures move 93 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:24,759 about in a different time frame than ours. After what 94 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,360 I've seen, I do stay out of the woods. Thank 95 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,639 you for giving people a place to tell these life 96 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,240 changing stories and life haunting experiences. I think that these 97 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:39,879 creatures should be left alone. That was a great story 98 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,319 about her experience as a little girl. I can't imagine 99 00:05:44,519 --> 00:05:47,360 what that would do to a kid. You know, any kid, 100 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,319 boy or girl that age, sitting down on the side 101 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:53,480 porch and seeing a monster coming at him that was 102 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:56,439 bigger than her six foot eight uncle or grandfather or 103 00:05:56,439 --> 00:05:59,560 whoever it was. But the thing about the tree being 104 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,519 pushed on to some campers on top of their tent, 105 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:07,199 I've never heard that before. That is, that's unreal. I 106 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:11,439 wonder if the tree was green or you know, isn't 107 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,600 that a freak accident. My wife was hiking with our 108 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:19,120 grandchildren one time over in Arkansas, and she was they 109 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,680 were walking up actually a mountain. They were walking beside 110 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,519 a creek and the kids were down in the creek 111 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,199 playing and getting wet and playing in the mud and everything, 112 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,959 and my wife was just standing there watching them. My 113 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:33,040 son came up and a tree branch fell out of 114 00:06:33,079 --> 00:06:36,800 a tree and missed my wife's head by like two 115 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:40,399 or three inches and kind of nicked her shoulder. If 116 00:06:40,439 --> 00:06:42,800 she'd have been a couple of inches to the right, 117 00:06:43,759 --> 00:06:48,319 I wouldn't be married now, I'd be a widow. And 118 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,480 she talks about it all the time, how close she 119 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:53,279 was to that limb when it hit, and when it hit, 120 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,160 there's no doubt it would have hurt her. I cannot 121 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:59,920 imagine a whole tree falling on a tent while you're 122 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:04,639 to sleep. Just imagine that. That's horrible, horrible, What a 123 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,759 scary story. Thank you, ma'am for sending this story. It's 124 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,560 it's kind of sad to know you had relatives that 125 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,800 died while camping with a tree falling on them. But 126 00:07:13,839 --> 00:07:16,199 the story was great and I appreciate you sharing it 127 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,680 with us. Thank you. Here is a story that a 128 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,879 woman sent to me that I thought was great. It's 129 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,800 going to be a short little podcast. I think you 130 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:29,600 guys will really like this story. She titles it The 131 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,759 Lurker and the Sundown Town Curse. I live in a 132 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,720 tiny town in the middle of North Carolina. Our town 133 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,839 is quaint on the outside, but it has a dark history. 134 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,800 A certain organization that dates back many years is what 135 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,439 put our town on the map in the first place. 136 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,879 It is a violent and discriminating group, and unfortunately it 137 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:57,920 is still active to this day. In secret, most would 138 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,959 refer to my town as a sundown on town. The 139 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,399 evil ones tell on themselves. My father always says, you 140 00:08:06,439 --> 00:08:08,560 don't have to know they're in this group. To know 141 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,040 they're in the group. They're suffering will tell at all. 142 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:15,399 He told us. When my sister and I were younger, 143 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:19,000 we just kind of nodded and shrugged our shoulders. Yet 144 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,360 it wasn't until we were older that we could see 145 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,439 what he was talking about. Some of these people in 146 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,600 this town are the definition of evil. A terrible energy 147 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,720 lingers from the things that they've done, and it seeps 148 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:34,440 into the ground and it spills into the heart of 149 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,399 the community. And for all the terrible things these people 150 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,080 have done, this energy seems to come back, however subtle, 151 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,519 for each and every one of them. You'll see a 152 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,240 family with old money and they're suffering. The families of 153 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,080 some of these evil men destroyed themselves from the inside out. 154 00:08:53,639 --> 00:08:58,519 The children marry into abusive relationships multiple times, they buy 155 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,519 and lose multiple homes, cannot hold jobs, or their children 156 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:05,159 end up on drugs, and they steal from everyone in 157 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,519 the family to the point that the family is on 158 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,919 the brink of poverty. Everything they touch falls apart. As 159 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,679 my old man always says, it's coming out in the wash. 160 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:19,799 I believe that the awful things these men did have 161 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:23,120 invited an evil presence into our town born from their 162 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:28,039 vengeful acts of vile, anger, and hate. Cornwallis and his 163 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,039 men came through our area, and with them they carried 164 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,000 a violent nature against the natives. One of the areas 165 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:37,799 in particular is a highway not too far that has 166 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,279 seen almost four hundred wrecks in the past two years 167 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,440 and almost one thousand in the past ten years. Every 168 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,240 year it claims multiple lives, and it's one of the 169 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:52,039 strangest roads you'll find, but it's one of the most dangerous. 170 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,759 Too many locals avoid this road for fear that it 171 00:09:55,799 --> 00:09:59,679 holds a curse, and I can't say that I disagree. 172 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,720 This road was once part of the path that Cornwallis 173 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,279 and his men took. There are several reports of cryptids 174 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,480 and supernatural beings in our area. The most disturbing one 175 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,159 in my book is nicknamed the Lurker. Those who have 176 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,480 seen it described it as a lanky, white skinned creature 177 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,559 about the size of a human but emaciated. It has 178 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,000 scaly skin, the texture of dry human elbows, and two 179 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:31,639 sunken cavities where its eyes should be. It crawls around 180 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,519 like a hairless sloth with disturbing, long clawlike appendages, and 181 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,120 one resident in our town drew a picture of it, 182 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,000 but it was too horrific to look at more than once. 183 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:47,039 The individuals who saw it said that it creeps from 184 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,720 home to home through a trailer park in town. All 185 00:10:50,759 --> 00:10:53,200 the witnesses who see it said it gives them a 186 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,480 feeling of dread like they've never felt before, and the 187 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,000 night of a sighting they are afflicted with terrible knots. 188 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,519 One man said he saw it crawl over the tops 189 00:11:04,519 --> 00:11:08,080 of the trailers and he could hear the scratching. Most 190 00:11:08,159 --> 00:11:11,240 residents don't go out at night. In fact, most people 191 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:13,600 don't go out after dark at all in our town. 192 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,279 There are several other cryptids in our tiny town, including 193 00:11:18,519 --> 00:11:22,159 some I've witnessed with my own eyes. I'd be happy 194 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,480 to share my encounters with you if you'd like to 195 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:28,480 hear them. Some will make your skin crawl. Thank you 196 00:11:28,519 --> 00:11:31,200 for your time, Cam and God bless keep doing what 197 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,919 you do. First, thank you to the writer for sending 198 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,240 this story. I thought it was very interesting. The curse 199 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,000 part of it was interesting that Sunday. If you guys 200 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,720 don't know what sundown rules are in some of these towns, 201 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,879 and let me tell you, you might think they only 202 00:11:47,919 --> 00:11:53,279 happened in the Southern States, but it didn't. It happened 203 00:11:53,279 --> 00:11:57,559 all over the country. It's a shameful, horrible thing that 204 00:11:57,759 --> 00:12:01,080 people did to try to keep the towns. They were 205 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,039 trying to keep their towns like they were. They didn't 206 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,639 want anything to change. But it's a terrible thing that 207 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:12,399 these sundown rules. But maybe sometimes that kind of meanness 208 00:12:12,519 --> 00:12:15,600 and evil brings on evil and brings on a curse 209 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:17,919 on a town. And maybe that's what happened to this town. 210 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:22,600 Sounds like it did. Sounds like it did. All right, 211 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,720 that's a couple of stories. I had some time this 212 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,559 morning to record these. It's six o'clock Friday night, and 213 00:12:29,639 --> 00:12:32,200 I'm gonna edit these real quick, get them up, get 214 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:35,039 them on a podcast. I'm gonna try to get another 215 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:38,159 one up this weekend. I hope you guys are enjoying 216 00:12:38,279 --> 00:12:41,720 your start of your weekend. I appreciate you listening. We'll 217 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,960 see you guys on the next one. Thanks.