1 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,599 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen seventy nine, when I was nine years old, 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:13,839 Speaker 1: we lived in Angelina County in East Texas. It was 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: about twenty miles south of Luvekin, near the sam Rayburn 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: Lake area. Both of my grandparents lived there. They were divorced, 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: but lived about two miles from each other. They each 6 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:28,839 Speaker 1: lived on a typical modest farm of twenty five to 7 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:32,759 Speaker 1: thirty acres with lots of chickens, ducks, horses, and cows. 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: One smoldering summer night at my grandmother's farm, the adults 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: were engaged in their usual routine of cooking dinner before 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: settling in for a night of card playing. Meanwhile, I 11 00:00:45,119 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: was slipping outside with my brother who was eleven, my 12 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: cousin who was eight, and my dad's ten year old brother, 13 00:00:52,359 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: our uncle, to hang out at the edge of one 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,439 Speaker 1: of the pastures, where the yard light on a pole 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: made a bright circle in the night. Beyond that halo, 16 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: the world was inky black. Within the light was the 17 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,079 Speaker 1: pasture gate, where we liked to sit and use our 18 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: sling shots to play sort of a gigantic game of 19 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:14,239 Speaker 1: marbles by shooting rocks out of the circle and into 20 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: the night. We were all sitting up on the gate, 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: engrossed in our game and cutting up and laughing as 22 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: little boys will do, when our attention was suddenly drawn 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: in the direction of the barn located one hundred yards 24 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: to our left. We silently stared and listened as something 25 00:01:31,599 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: massive and heavy came running through the pasture from that direction. 26 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,799 Speaker 1: We shot looks at each other as we realized the 27 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: speed at which this thing was running. We knew it 28 00:01:42,079 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: was on two legs, and that brought another round of 29 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:48,599 Speaker 1: glances to one another. Every thump, thump, thump of those 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,239 Speaker 1: pounding steps burned itself into my mind as we sat 31 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: waiting to see what this thing could be. It was 32 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: at the edge of the light when it came to 33 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,719 Speaker 1: a complete stop, as if it had just then noticed 34 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: us sitting there. The brightness ended so abruptly at the 35 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: circle's edge that all we could see were two tree 36 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:12,039 Speaker 1: trunk sized legs from the knees down. They were massive. 37 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: We could tell they were covered with brown hair that 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,039 Speaker 1: looked like long, fine brown wire. It was swaying like 39 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,479 Speaker 1: the hair on a wig moving in the wind. Then 40 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: my uncle did something that surprised us. All had a 41 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,439 Speaker 1: rock locked and loaded in a slingshot and chose that 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: moment to fire it right at the creature. We knew 43 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: it hit its mark by the thump it made when 44 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:39,479 Speaker 1: it hit the animal's body, followed by a plunk as 45 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: it hit the ground at its feet. But what happened 46 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,599 Speaker 1: next was the craziest thing I'd ever seen in all 47 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,719 Speaker 1: my nine years of living. The creature picked up the 48 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,439 Speaker 1: rock and threw it back at us, missing my head 49 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: by inches. Instantly, as if the devil himself were chasing us, 50 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: we sprang into action and sprinting for the house, pushing 51 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: at and tripping over each other as we ran. It 52 00:03:05,719 --> 00:03:08,599 Speaker 1: wasn't a matter of out running that thing in the darkness. 53 00:03:09,039 --> 00:03:12,479 Speaker 1: We were trying to outrun each other. No one wanted 54 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: to be the last man in line, and there was 55 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,759 Speaker 1: no doubt in our minds that whichever poor soul came 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: in last would go down first. We breathlessly burst through 57 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,319 Speaker 1: the door, screaming for our parents to come outside and 58 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: dispatch the monster in the pasture, but they just laughed 59 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: at us. They went back to their card game. Certain 60 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: we were making up the whole thing. There was nothing 61 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:39,719 Speaker 1: left for us to do. We weren't going back outside 62 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: with an adult to get rid of the beast. So 63 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: we cleaned up and we went to bed, but none 64 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: of us slept that night, knowing there was something out there. 65 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:52,479 Speaker 1: The next morning, my dad and my stepfather weren't at 66 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: the breakfast table. We asked my grandmother where they were, 67 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,919 Speaker 1: and as soon as she told us they were out 68 00:03:57,919 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: in the pasture, we ran out the front door to 69 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: join them. We found them at the far end examining 70 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,159 Speaker 1: a piece of fence that had been ripped up and 71 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,439 Speaker 1: completely demolished, as if something large had run right through it. 72 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,719 Speaker 1: My step grandfather and dad were baffled by the damage. 73 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: All the animals were accounted for. They couldn't imagine what 74 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: had done this. My name is Lynn. I live in Colman, Alabama. 75 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,959 Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty nine, my grandparents bought a sixty seven 76 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,519 Speaker 1: acre farm. I was four when they moved in and 77 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: nine when Papa sold it. The farm had two new 78 00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: chicken houses with runs, and two old houses that were 79 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:45,079 Speaker 1: used for feeding hay storage. There was a pond right 80 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: behind the house. From my grandparents' house to the chicken 81 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: houses was a quarter mile or more, connected by a 82 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: little dirt and gravel road on one side of the 83 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: road were the chicken houses, and on the other side, 84 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: and about forty yards way was a creek bed. My 85 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,759 Speaker 1: granny had cancer. She was doing chemotherapy off and on 86 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: until she passed when I was seven. Several Times before 87 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: she passed she said she saw bigfoot out behind the 88 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: pond or in the pond. She was a religious woman, 89 00:05:17,519 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: so I know she just wouldn't lie. I can't guarantee 90 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: the chemotherapy didn't play a part in it, though. Once 91 00:05:25,399 --> 00:05:27,399 Speaker 1: I was awakened in the middle of the night and 92 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,199 Speaker 1: told to get in the truck. We drove down to 93 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: the chicken houses. Some of my grandfather's friends were already 94 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: down there. They were all carrying guns and the headlights 95 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,199 Speaker 1: of their cars were pointed down between the chicken houses. 96 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,439 Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to get out of the truck, but 97 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: I asked what was down there, and I was told 98 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: it was a fox. Now I'm smart enough to know 99 00:05:48,439 --> 00:05:51,079 Speaker 1: it doesn't take that many people to kill a fox. 100 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: I walked that dirt road from the main house to 101 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:58,759 Speaker 1: the chicken houses and back a good bit myself. Once 102 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,199 Speaker 1: I thought I saw something moved between the middle of 103 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: the old chicken houses. I was coming from the house 104 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,959 Speaker 1: down to the new chicken houses, and I saw it 105 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: through spots where the curtains were ripped or gone on 106 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: the old chicken house windows. At first I thought it 107 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,519 Speaker 1: was one of our cows. By the time I got 108 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,439 Speaker 1: close enough to get a look, nothing was there. I 109 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: also think I had seen movement inside the old houses before. 110 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: Because of that, I would never look at them as 111 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:30,759 Speaker 1: I walked by. Plus, I would often hear walking noises 112 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: from the woods beyond the creek bed, and I felt 113 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,959 Speaker 1: like I was being watched. There came a point when 114 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: I always felt like I was being watched no matter 115 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:42,959 Speaker 1: where I went around that place. I had a two 116 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: twenty four wheeler that I went everywhere on except the woods. 117 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: Paul Paul told me to stay out of the woods. 118 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,399 Speaker 1: There were trails, some Paul Paul made with his tractor 119 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,199 Speaker 1: and some that were already there, and they all ran 120 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: through the woods in typical facts. Wishing for a young boy, 121 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,399 Speaker 1: I did what I wasn't supposed to do until I 122 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:06,519 Speaker 1: get caught. One time, when I was in the woods 123 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: on a trail I'd never been on before, I found 124 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,839 Speaker 1: what I think was a cave entrance. Before I could 125 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: explore it, I got the eerious feeling and I got gone. 126 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: It was getting close to dark now I was kind 127 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: of lost, and I ended up getting on a trail 128 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: that led me to our neighbor's house four miles away 129 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: by way of paved road, which I took all the 130 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,759 Speaker 1: way back home. There used to be this tree right 131 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: behind the house that I would play in all the time. 132 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: It was thirty feet away from the pond behind the house. 133 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: One day, I ran outside and jumped in the tree 134 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: and started climbing up to my usual high spot. Many 135 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: times I've seen our cattle in the pond splashing and 136 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:51,519 Speaker 1: twirling their tails. But as I turned around to take 137 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: my perch HiPE in the tree, I saw something move 138 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:58,959 Speaker 1: and splashed that I could not recognize. It was all black, 139 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,439 Speaker 1: and it swung its arms in the water like you 140 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:04,519 Speaker 1: might if you were trying to splash someone in a pool. 141 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember hearing any kind of special sounds other 142 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: than water splashing. It was just a movement that got 143 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: my attention. I jumped down and I ran inside. I 144 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: don't remember seeing any cattle around the pond that day either. 145 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,879 Speaker 1: It was like they were using our pond to bathe in, 146 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,759 Speaker 1: and it was splashing at me, trying to say, hey, 147 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,839 Speaker 1: I'm bathing here, boy, go inside. Not far from the 148 00:08:29,879 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: farm is the road to Arley. And one night my 149 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: mom's sister was coming home down that road from my 150 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: great aunt's house when she saw something. She pulled up 151 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,639 Speaker 1: to the house, honking the horn. Pale white, and she 152 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,759 Speaker 1: said she peed herself. She was scared speechless. Once Mom 153 00:08:47,799 --> 00:08:50,279 Speaker 1: got her calm down enough to talk, she said she'd 154 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: seen something on the curve of that road. It was 155 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: up in the distance. At first, she thought it was 156 00:08:56,399 --> 00:08:59,039 Speaker 1: a coyote, and then she realized it was a lot 157 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: bigger than a kaya, and thought maybe it was a bear. 158 00:09:02,919 --> 00:09:05,519 Speaker 1: And when her headlights hit it, it stood up and 159 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,879 Speaker 1: it ran across the road. I've always heard rumors of 160 00:09:09,919 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: bears in this area, but I've never heard any sightings myself. 161 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: When I asked my aunt about it, she said it 162 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:19,279 Speaker 1: stood up on two legs and ran across the road 163 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: like a man. She won't call it a bigfoot, and 164 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: neither would my mom back when she first told me 165 00:09:25,639 --> 00:09:28,919 Speaker 1: that story. Well, it was on that same road that 166 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,039 Speaker 1: my great aunt, the one from whose house my aunt 167 00:09:32,159 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: was returning that night, had an accident she was missing 168 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,039 Speaker 1: for two weeks. I was young at the time, between 169 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,919 Speaker 1: five and seven, but I remember the wreck because I 170 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: remember her being missing, and I remember the vehicle being 171 00:09:46,639 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: my granny's old for ranger back when I was a kid. Though, 172 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,159 Speaker 1: when someone went missing, they might have just been in 173 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,639 Speaker 1: jail or the hospital. My great aunt, however, insists that 174 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: for two weeks she was missing and she was being 175 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: taken care of by a family of Bigfoot. They couldn't 176 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,399 Speaker 1: talk like us, but they could understand each other with gestures. 177 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,639 Speaker 1: Eventually they led her back to the road for someone 178 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,639 Speaker 1: to find her. Well, those are my Bigfoot stories. I 179 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:21,879 Speaker 1: hope you can use them. Thanks for the channel. It's 180 00:10:21,919 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: a story about the Boggie Creek, the falc area. I 181 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: always love these stories, and I love it when people 182 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: send these in because the legend of Boggie Creek is 183 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: the catalyst that put so many people on the trail 184 00:10:36,279 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: of Bigfoot and interested in Bigfoot. It's still today, it's 185 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,399 Speaker 1: an iconic movie. But this is a foul Arkansas story. 186 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:48,399 Speaker 1: Miller County is located in the southwest corner of Arkansas. 187 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,279 Speaker 1: Its county seat is Texas Arcana, but it is perhaps 188 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: most famous for the tiny town that lies less than 189 00:10:55,519 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 1: twenty miles to the south, known as Foalk. My family 190 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: has lived in Miller County since before the Civil War. 191 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: I lived in Foult for most of my young life. 192 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: We were not in the camp of believers in the 193 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: foulk monster made famous by the movie The Legend of 194 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,279 Speaker 1: Boggy Creek. It may come as a surprise to many, 195 00:11:16,399 --> 00:11:21,639 Speaker 1: but not everyone in that region believes sometime in nineteen 196 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,039 Speaker 1: eighty one or nineteen eighty two, I was around fourteen 197 00:11:25,159 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: years old, and something happened that in recent years has 198 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,919 Speaker 1: made me question my family's position in the fall. I 199 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: had invited a friend from school to spend the weekend 200 00:11:36,759 --> 00:11:39,759 Speaker 1: with me to scout deer hunting places for the upcoming 201 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,039 Speaker 1: deer season. Our house was surrounded by fifty acres of 202 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: standing hardwood timber, with a large creek running through it. 203 00:11:48,759 --> 00:11:51,919 Speaker 1: Beyond that timber was a large cutover of four hundred 204 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: acres or more. It seemed to go on forever. That day, 205 00:11:57,039 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: we had walked all the way across that land looking 206 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: for deer sign when we came up on an odor 207 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: so powerful and so bad, I told my friend I 208 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: didn't want to find the source of it. I assumed 209 00:12:09,279 --> 00:12:11,919 Speaker 1: it was a dead horse or some other large animal 210 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: decomposing in the hot Arkansas sun. It smelled like a 211 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: cross between rotten meat, trash, raw sewage, and a heavy 212 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: dose of strong sulfur, similar in intensity to a skunk, 213 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: but different. It hung so thick in the air that 214 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: we could almost taste it. We decided it was time 215 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 1: to go home, and we turned a head back. It 216 00:12:36,639 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: was getting dark, but we followed the logging roads that 217 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,159 Speaker 1: ran in straight lines between the properties. As we walked 218 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,279 Speaker 1: along with our timber to our right, the cutover to 219 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: our left, and the setting sun sinking in the sky 220 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: behind us, we became aware of something paralleling us in 221 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: the timber beside the cutover. We couldn't see anything in 222 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: the failing light, but it sounded like it was on 223 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:04,759 Speaker 1: two feet and that it was fairly close. I called 224 00:13:04,799 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: out to it, but it didn't get a response. A 225 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: quarter mile up the road, we turned right along the 226 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 1: property line. As a result, whatever was following us was 227 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: now silhouetted against the sun. Did you see that? My 228 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,879 Speaker 1: friend cried. He was so upset he couldn't stop blubbering 229 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: and wringing his hands. I hadn't seen anything, so he 230 00:13:27,519 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: pointed into the woods and he said, look right there, 231 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: at the bottom of a large oak tree, I could 232 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: see a shadow about three feet off the ground, peering 233 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,639 Speaker 1: back at us. It was all black, made even more 234 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: so by the sun behind it, so I couldn't make 235 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: out any features. I did note, however, that it didn't 236 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: have any ears on top of its head, and I 237 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,399 Speaker 1: thought that was strange. If it had been a dog 238 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: or a coyote, I would have expected to see ears, 239 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,639 Speaker 1: But since I didn't believe in the legend, it was 240 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,519 Speaker 1: nothing to be worried about. By now, my friend was 241 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,759 Speaker 1: having a nervous breakdown. He started begging me to start running. 242 00:14:08,919 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: He wanted to get away from there. My family's lived 243 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: here for generations. I assured him, there's nothing to worry about. 244 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: There's nothing here that can hurt you, but he was 245 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: not impressed. We still had fifty acres of timber to 246 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: walk through, and the sun was disappearing fast. As it 247 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: vanished beyond the horizon, darkness swallowed the woods, leaving us 248 00:14:32,399 --> 00:14:35,559 Speaker 1: unable to move forward until the sodium light came on 249 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: in the yard so I could find the house. We 250 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: moved slowly towards home, and that thing in the woods 251 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,279 Speaker 1: stayed behind us within fifty feet the entire time, Even 252 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:49,879 Speaker 1: though we had nothing more than a couple of pellet guns. 253 00:14:49,919 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: I was never afraid. It had to be some sort 254 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,679 Speaker 1: of animal, but nothing to be concerned with. Finally we 255 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: got back to the house and we're safely in the 256 00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:03,679 Speaker 1: kit where my friend lost his mind. He called us 257 00:15:03,679 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: folks to come get him. They showed up and put 258 00:15:06,519 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: him in the floorboard of the car and covered him 259 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,679 Speaker 1: with a blanket. He was a basket case. The next Monday, 260 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:16,159 Speaker 1: he went to school and told everyone that we had 261 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: seen the Foult monster. People asked me what I saw, 262 00:15:20,039 --> 00:15:22,519 Speaker 1: and I said it was something small behind a tree, 263 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: nothing to be afraid of. The kid quit speaking to 264 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,279 Speaker 1: me after that. A few days later he moved to 265 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,559 Speaker 1: a different school. I wouldn't see him for another six 266 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:37,159 Speaker 1: years when we ran into each other in college history class. 267 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: And after all that time, he still would not speak 268 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: to me. Over two decades passed before I gave it 269 00:15:45,519 --> 00:15:49,519 Speaker 1: another thought. I was watching an episode of Finding Bigfoot 270 00:15:49,799 --> 00:15:53,039 Speaker 1: where the witness described an incident that was the same 271 00:15:53,159 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: basic story I just related. The biggest difference was that 272 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: this person's encounter happened to be in Utah. All what 273 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: he had seen poking out from behind a tree where 274 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,759 Speaker 1: the creature's knees. I sat straight up in my chair 275 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: as the hair stood up on the back of my neck. 276 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:15,039 Speaker 1: I was immediately backing that cutover with that kid. Did 277 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,559 Speaker 1: he see more than I did? I can't say I 278 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: saw a bigfoot, and I'm not sure what else it 279 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: could be or what could explain it. Well. Uh, I 280 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,799 Speaker 1: want to keep wanting to say his name, because he's 281 00:16:28,799 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: got a good name, he's got a good Southern name, 282 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,279 Speaker 1: but I won't. I won't say his name, but I 283 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:36,279 Speaker 1: wonder if there's any way to get in touch with 284 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,159 Speaker 1: this guy and uh, maybe shake his hand and say, hey, 285 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,919 Speaker 1: let's bear the hatchet. I think maybe you did see something. 286 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I understand exactly what this writer's saying. 287 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,159 Speaker 1: I mean, if I was out in the woods and 288 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: somebody said, hey, I saw something, I'd say, Oh, you 289 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: didn't see nothing, come on, let's keep going. I'm that way. 290 00:16:55,279 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm one of these people that likes to 291 00:16:57,639 --> 00:17:01,159 Speaker 1: dismiss things that I encountered that are strange out in 292 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 1: the woods because I always It kind of depends on 293 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 1: who the person is. I think if it was my wife, 294 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,079 Speaker 1: I would say, all that's nothing, come on. I mean, 295 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: if she hears a little scratching in the house, she 296 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,599 Speaker 1: thinks of mouse is in the house. We live in 297 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: the country and mice are just a fact of life 298 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: out here, but our house is not covered up with 299 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 1: them except in the winter. But it's summertime and we 300 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: actually have She saw a mouse run across the handrail 301 00:17:25,559 --> 00:17:28,519 Speaker 1: on the back porch, so she's freaking out, and I'm like, 302 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: don't worry about it. That they need a place to 303 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,079 Speaker 1: stay too, and I'm gonna have to get rid of 304 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: them all. But you get my point. You kind of 305 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: dismiss these things and you don't think anything else about it. 306 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,599 Speaker 1: It's not something that's ever on your mind, but it's 307 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,559 Speaker 1: on the other person's mind and they get mad at 308 00:17:44,599 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: you for it. And yeah, my wife gets mad at 309 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: me when I dismiss her about the mice. So I 310 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,599 Speaker 1: can see both sides of this, one way or another. 311 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 1: This was a great story and the guy wrote it 312 00:17:55,559 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: just perfectly. It was a great story. And again, I 313 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: love these Foult monsters stories, and it was so nice 314 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,319 Speaker 1: of him to send it in and I really appreciate him. 315 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 1: This is a story that was emailed to me from 316 00:18:10,319 --> 00:18:13,599 Speaker 1: John O. He is from Australia and this is a 317 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: great story. My father drove a truck for a road 318 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,799 Speaker 1: builder one Saturday in nineteen sixty six. He took me 319 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,319 Speaker 1: to work with him. I was ten years old at 320 00:18:24,319 --> 00:18:27,759 Speaker 1: the time. Dad's boss was building a home at a 321 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:31,279 Speaker 1: place called lang Lang in the state of Victoria, Australia. 322 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: We drove down there and Dad went to work dragging 323 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:38,039 Speaker 1: a huge timber up and down a dirt road so 324 00:18:38,079 --> 00:18:41,319 Speaker 1: that it would look worn. It was the central beam 325 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,079 Speaker 1: of the house. There was a dam a couple one 326 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,759 Speaker 1: hundred meters down from the building site, and I got 327 00:18:46,839 --> 00:18:50,079 Speaker 1: the idea to build a raft. I found four ten 328 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: gallon drums and some nails and timber, and I borrowed 329 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: a hammer and I rolled and carried everything down to 330 00:18:56,799 --> 00:18:59,519 Speaker 1: the dam. It was hard work for a ten year old, 331 00:18:59,519 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: but I got it done. I'd been at it for 332 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: about an hour when I had this overwhelming feeling that 333 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: I was being watched. I brushed it off and I 334 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: kept on working. But then that feeling of danger came 335 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: over me again. My young sixth sense kept telling me 336 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: to pay attention, and I stood up and perused the 337 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: tree line at the edge of the clearing around the dam. 338 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,519 Speaker 1: I finally noticed a dark, circular shape in the meter 339 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: high light brown grass of the clearing, and it disappeared 340 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,839 Speaker 1: and then reappeared again, changing from a circular shape to 341 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: a more oval shape. I picked up a piece of 342 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,839 Speaker 1: timber about twice my height, and it was too big 343 00:19:40,839 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: to grip comfortably, and I ignored my inner voice that 344 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: was screaming, it's a bore, it's a wild dog, it's 345 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: a wombat, and I proceeded toward the anomaly. My curiosity 346 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,559 Speaker 1: won the battle, and when I got within a couple 347 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:57,319 Speaker 1: of meters from the high grass, I put the timber 348 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,559 Speaker 1: in front of me and I approached the spot where 349 00:19:59,559 --> 00:20:03,559 Speaker 1: I'd seen the shape. I peered over the grass and 350 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,519 Speaker 1: I saw an animal that could have dragged me into 351 00:20:06,519 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: the bush land and never be seen again. It was 352 00:20:09,759 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: a black panther with brown streaks through its shiny black fur. 353 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: I saw it from the left hand side. It was 354 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: crouching down and moving away from me. It was agitated, 355 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: and it was snarling, doing what I would describe as 356 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,799 Speaker 1: a fake charge, but in retreat it would turn its 357 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: head back toward me, showing me one extremely large canine 358 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:35,039 Speaker 1: about the size of an adult index finger. I didn't 359 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: realize it at the time, but I had gone in shocked, 360 00:20:38,079 --> 00:20:40,319 Speaker 1: and I stood there holding the piece of timber in 361 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: front of me, one foot in front of the other, 362 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: capable of moving only my eyes and head. As I 363 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,759 Speaker 1: watched it disappear out of sight. My thoughts were to 364 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: get out of there, but not to run. How many 365 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,039 Speaker 1: more were there, I thought, would that one double back 366 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: and get me? How far was I from the safety 367 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: of the house? And why was my body not moving? 368 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: When I finally regained some composure, my legs work like 369 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,079 Speaker 1: a rusty robot. I stepped back, slowly, keeping the timber 370 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,759 Speaker 1: piece in front of me. All the while I was 371 00:21:12,799 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: scanning the tall grass and up and down the paddocks 372 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,519 Speaker 1: in the bush land. I backed all the way down 373 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:21,079 Speaker 1: the hill and up the other side, And when I 374 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,039 Speaker 1: finally heard voices close by, I turned and ran straight 375 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: for a man who was up a ladder painting the 376 00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:30,519 Speaker 1: outside of a house. He looked down at me and 377 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: he said, hey, son, you look like you've seen a ghost. 378 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: I couldn't find my voice to answer him. I was 379 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,279 Speaker 1: still in shock. I went straight into the living area, 380 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:43,279 Speaker 1: where I sat on a pile of timbers, surrounded by workmen, 381 00:21:43,599 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: and I pondered what I had just seen. I don't 382 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,279 Speaker 1: know how long I had been sitting there when I 383 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: heard my father say, come on, son, let's go. I 384 00:21:53,319 --> 00:21:55,759 Speaker 1: was never so relieved as I was to get into 385 00:21:55,759 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 1: that truck and go home. After a while, I finally 386 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: found my and I said, Dad, I saw a panther today. 387 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: He responded with, don't be stupid. There's no sich thing 388 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: in Australia. That was it. I never spoke of it again. 389 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 1: In the early nineteen nineties, my wife and I took 390 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,839 Speaker 1: our twins to the zoo and when we got to 391 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: the big cat enclosures, we saw a black panther or 392 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,039 Speaker 1: a leopard with slight brown markings, sitting high up on 393 00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: a log. I stopped in my tracks and gazed in awe. 394 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,839 Speaker 1: All of those old emotions came flooding back. This was 395 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: definitely what I had seen, except to go through it 396 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: with my wife on several occasions. I have kept this 397 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: experience locked away since I was ten years old. She's 398 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,039 Speaker 1: a good listener, Thank God, and I realize now that 399 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:52,519 Speaker 1: the peace September I was holding had probably saved my wife. 400 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty six, when I was ten, there was 401 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: only hearsay about these things. But the advent of the 402 00:22:58,759 --> 00:23:03,079 Speaker 1: Internet and more advanced media resources, more and more stories 403 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: have come to light. I'm an ex serviceman. I stand 404 00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: six feet tall and I weigh two hundred and twenty pounds. 405 00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:13,599 Speaker 1: Not much throws me, but I do have one Achilles heel. 406 00:23:14,319 --> 00:23:17,039 Speaker 1: I don't go into the bush alone, and if I 407 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: go in a group, you'll find me at the back 408 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: carrying a big piece September, pretending I use it for stability.