WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:12.960 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.