WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.599 Back in nineteen seventy nine, when I was nine years old, 2 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.839 we lived in Angelina County in East Texas. It was 3 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:17.480 about twenty miles south of Luvekin, near the sam Rayburn 4 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:22.600 Lake area. Both of my grandparents lived there. They were divorced, 5 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.239 but lived about two miles from each other. They each 6 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.839 lived on a typical modest farm of twenty five to 7 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.759 thirty acres with lots of chickens, ducks, horses, and cows. 8 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:37.320 One smoldering summer night at my grandmother's farm, the adults 9 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.880 were engaged in their usual routine of cooking dinner before 10 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.960 settling in for a night of card playing. Meanwhile, I 11 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.240 was slipping outside with my brother who was eleven, my 12 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.960 cousin who was eight, and my dad's ten year old brother, 13 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:54.920 our uncle, to hang out at the edge of one 14 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.439 of the pastures, where the yard light on a pole 15 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.320 made a bright circle in the night. Beyond that halo, 16 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:05.000 the world was inky black. Within the light was the 17 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.079 pasture gate, where we liked to sit and use our 18 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.120 sling shots to play sort of a gigantic game of 19 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.239 marbles by shooting rocks out of the circle and into 20 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:17.319 the night. We were all sitting up on the gate, 21 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:20.200 engrossed in our game and cutting up and laughing as 22 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:23.920 little boys will do, when our attention was suddenly drawn 23 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.920 in the direction of the barn located one hundred yards 24 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:31.480 to our left. We silently stared and listened as something 25 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:35.200 massive and heavy came running through the pasture from that direction. 26 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.799 We shot looks at each other as we realized the 27 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.040 speed at which this thing was running. We knew it 28 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.480 was on two legs, and that brought another round of 29 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.599 glances to one another. Every thump, thump, thump of those 30 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:52.239 pounding steps burned itself into my mind as we sat 31 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:56.000 waiting to see what this thing could be. It was 32 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:57.840 at the edge of the light when it came to 33 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.719 a complete stop, as if it had just then noticed 34 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:04.920 us sitting there. The brightness ended so abruptly at the 35 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.000 circle's edge that all we could see were two tree 36 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:12.039 trunk sized legs from the knees down. They were massive. 37 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.360 We could tell they were covered with brown hair that 38 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.039 looked like long, fine brown wire. It was swaying like 39 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.479 the hair on a wig moving in the wind. Then 40 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.960 my uncle did something that surprised us. All had a 41 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.439 rock locked and loaded in a slingshot and chose that 42 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.240 moment to fire it right at the creature. We knew 43 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.560 it hit its mark by the thump it made when 44 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.479 it hit the animal's body, followed by a plunk as 45 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.919 it hit the ground at its feet. But what happened 46 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.599 next was the craziest thing I'd ever seen in all 47 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.719 my nine years of living. The creature picked up the 48 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:52.439 rock and threw it back at us, missing my head 49 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:57.400 by inches. Instantly, as if the devil himself were chasing us, 50 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.240 we sprang into action and sprinting for the house, pushing 51 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:05.680 at and tripping over each other as we ran. It 52 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.599 wasn't a matter of out running that thing in the darkness. 53 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.479 We were trying to outrun each other. No one wanted 54 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.240 to be the last man in line, and there was 55 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.759 no doubt in our minds that whichever poor soul came 56 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:23.400 in last would go down first. We breathlessly burst through 57 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.319 the door, screaming for our parents to come outside and 58 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.960 dispatch the monster in the pasture, but they just laughed 59 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:33.400 at us. They went back to their card game. Certain 60 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.560 we were making up the whole thing. There was nothing 61 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.719 left for us to do. We weren't going back outside 62 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.120 with an adult to get rid of the beast. So 63 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.520 we cleaned up and we went to bed, but none 64 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.400 of us slept that night, knowing there was something out there. 65 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.479 The next morning, my dad and my stepfather weren't at 66 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.800 the breakfast table. We asked my grandmother where they were, 67 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.919 and as soon as she told us they were out 68 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.360 in the pasture, we ran out the front door to 69 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.960 join them. We found them at the far end examining 70 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.159 a piece of fence that had been ripped up and 71 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.439 completely demolished, as if something large had run right through it. 72 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.719 My step grandfather and dad were baffled by the damage. 73 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.680 All the animals were accounted for. They couldn't imagine what 74 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:25.560 had done this. My name is Lynn. I live in Colman, Alabama. 75 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.959 In nineteen eighty nine, my grandparents bought a sixty seven 76 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.519 acre farm. I was four when they moved in and 77 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.360 nine when Papa sold it. The farm had two new 78 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.800 chicken houses with runs, and two old houses that were 79 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:45.079 used for feeding hay storage. There was a pond right 80 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.600 behind the house. From my grandparents' house to the chicken 81 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:51.839 houses was a quarter mile or more, connected by a 82 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:56.000 little dirt and gravel road on one side of the 83 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:58.839 road were the chicken houses, and on the other side, 84 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.920 and about forty yards way was a creek bed. My 85 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.759 granny had cancer. She was doing chemotherapy off and on 86 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:11.279 until she passed when I was seven. Several Times before 87 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.120 she passed she said she saw bigfoot out behind the 88 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.360 pond or in the pond. She was a religious woman, 89 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:21.000 so I know she just wouldn't lie. I can't guarantee 90 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.360 the chemotherapy didn't play a part in it, though. Once 91 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.399 I was awakened in the middle of the night and 92 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.199 told to get in the truck. We drove down to 93 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.040 the chicken houses. Some of my grandfather's friends were already 94 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.120 down there. They were all carrying guns and the headlights 95 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:40.199 of their cars were pointed down between the chicken houses. 96 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:43.439 I wasn't allowed to get out of the truck, but 97 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:45.560 I asked what was down there, and I was told 98 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.360 it was a fox. Now I'm smart enough to know 99 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.079 it doesn't take that many people to kill a fox. 100 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.560 I walked that dirt road from the main house to 101 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:58.759 the chicken houses and back a good bit myself. Once 102 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.199 I thought I saw something moved between the middle of 103 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.360 the old chicken houses. I was coming from the house 104 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.959 down to the new chicken houses, and I saw it 105 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.920 through spots where the curtains were ripped or gone on 106 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.800 the old chicken house windows. At first I thought it 107 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.519 was one of our cows. By the time I got 108 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.439 close enough to get a look, nothing was there. I 109 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.160 also think I had seen movement inside the old houses before. 110 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:26.920 Because of that, I would never look at them as 111 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.759 I walked by. Plus, I would often hear walking noises 112 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.040 from the woods beyond the creek bed, and I felt 113 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.959 like I was being watched. There came a point when 114 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:39.600 I always felt like I was being watched no matter 115 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.959 where I went around that place. I had a two 116 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:47.040 twenty four wheeler that I went everywhere on except the woods. 117 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:49.720 Paul Paul told me to stay out of the woods. 118 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.399 There were trails, some Paul Paul made with his tractor 119 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.199 and some that were already there, and they all ran 120 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:01.120 through the woods in typical facts. Wishing for a young boy, 121 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.399 I did what I wasn't supposed to do until I 122 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.519 get caught. One time, when I was in the woods 123 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:09.120 on a trail I'd never been on before, I found 124 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.839 what I think was a cave entrance. Before I could 125 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.560 explore it, I got the eerious feeling and I got gone. 126 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.120 It was getting close to dark now I was kind 127 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.360 of lost, and I ended up getting on a trail 128 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.360 that led me to our neighbor's house four miles away 129 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.480 by way of paved road, which I took all the 130 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.759 way back home. There used to be this tree right 131 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.360 behind the house that I would play in all the time. 132 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.720 It was thirty feet away from the pond behind the house. 133 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.120 One day, I ran outside and jumped in the tree 134 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.240 and started climbing up to my usual high spot. Many 135 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.240 times I've seen our cattle in the pond splashing and 136 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.519 twirling their tails. But as I turned around to take 137 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.560 my perch HiPE in the tree, I saw something move 138 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.959 and splashed that I could not recognize. It was all black, 139 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.439 and it swung its arms in the water like you 140 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.519 might if you were trying to splash someone in a pool. 141 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.800 I don't remember hearing any kind of special sounds other 142 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:12.000 than water splashing. It was just a movement that got 143 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:16.000 my attention. I jumped down and I ran inside. I 144 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.600 don't remember seeing any cattle around the pond that day either. 145 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:22.879 It was like they were using our pond to bathe in, 146 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.759 and it was splashing at me, trying to say, hey, 147 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:29.839 I'm bathing here, boy, go inside. Not far from the 148 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.600 farm is the road to Arley. And one night my 149 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:35.240 mom's sister was coming home down that road from my 150 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.200 great aunt's house when she saw something. She pulled up 151 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.639 to the house, honking the horn. Pale white, and she 152 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:47.759 said she peed herself. She was scared speechless. Once Mom 153 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.279 got her calm down enough to talk, she said she'd 154 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.240 seen something on the curve of that road. It was 155 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:56.360 up in the distance. At first, she thought it was 156 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.039 a coyote, and then she realized it was a lot 157 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.240 bigger than a kaya, and thought maybe it was a bear. 158 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.519 And when her headlights hit it, it stood up and 159 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.879 it ran across the road. I've always heard rumors of 160 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.840 bears in this area, but I've never heard any sightings myself. 161 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.720 When I asked my aunt about it, she said it 162 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.279 stood up on two legs and ran across the road 163 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.000 like a man. She won't call it a bigfoot, and 164 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.480 neither would my mom back when she first told me 165 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:28.919 that story. Well, it was on that same road that 166 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.039 my great aunt, the one from whose house my aunt 167 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:36.000 was returning that night, had an accident she was missing 168 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:40.039 for two weeks. I was young at the time, between 169 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:42.919 five and seven, but I remember the wreck because I 170 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.600 remember her being missing, and I remember the vehicle being 171 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:51.440 my granny's old for ranger back when I was a kid. Though, 172 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:54.159 when someone went missing, they might have just been in 173 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.639 jail or the hospital. My great aunt, however, insists that 174 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.600 for two weeks she was missing and she was being 175 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:06.559 taken care of by a family of Bigfoot. They couldn't 176 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:10.399 talk like us, but they could understand each other with gestures. 177 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.639 Eventually they led her back to the road for someone 178 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.639 to find her. Well, those are my Bigfoot stories. I 179 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:21.879 hope you can use them. Thanks for the channel. It's 180 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.440 a story about the Boggie Creek, the falc area. I 181 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.600 always love these stories, and I love it when people 182 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:32.360 send these in because the legend of Boggie Creek is 183 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:36.240 the catalyst that put so many people on the trail 184 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:39.960 of Bigfoot and interested in Bigfoot. It's still today, it's 185 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.399 an iconic movie. But this is a foul Arkansas story. 186 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:48.399 Miller County is located in the southwest corner of Arkansas. 187 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.279 Its county seat is Texas Arcana, but it is perhaps 188 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.480 most famous for the tiny town that lies less than 189 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:00.200 twenty miles to the south, known as Foalk. My family 190 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.080 has lived in Miller County since before the Civil War. 191 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.600 I lived in Foult for most of my young life. 192 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.720 We were not in the camp of believers in the 193 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.960 foulk monster made famous by the movie The Legend of 194 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.279 Boggy Creek. It may come as a surprise to many, 195 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.639 but not everyone in that region believes sometime in nineteen 196 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:25.039 eighty one or nineteen eighty two, I was around fourteen 197 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:29.080 years old, and something happened that in recent years has 198 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.919 made me question my family's position in the fall. I 199 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.720 had invited a friend from school to spend the weekend 200 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:39.759 with me to scout deer hunting places for the upcoming 201 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:44.039 deer season. Our house was surrounded by fifty acres of 202 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.840 standing hardwood timber, with a large creek running through it. 203 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:51.919 Beyond that timber was a large cutover of four hundred 204 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.960 acres or more. It seemed to go on forever. That day, 205 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.559 we had walked all the way across that land looking 206 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.200 for deer sign when we came up on an odor 207 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.960 so powerful and so bad, I told my friend I 208 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.240 didn't want to find the source of it. I assumed 209 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.919 it was a dead horse or some other large animal 210 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:16.720 decomposing in the hot Arkansas sun. It smelled like a 211 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:21.200 cross between rotten meat, trash, raw sewage, and a heavy 212 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:25.840 dose of strong sulfur, similar in intensity to a skunk, 213 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.679 but different. It hung so thick in the air that 214 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.720 we could almost taste it. We decided it was time 215 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.559 to go home, and we turned a head back. It 216 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.559 was getting dark, but we followed the logging roads that 217 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:44.159 ran in straight lines between the properties. As we walked 218 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.279 along with our timber to our right, the cutover to 219 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.200 our left, and the setting sun sinking in the sky 220 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.320 behind us, we became aware of something paralleling us in 221 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.240 the timber beside the cutover. We couldn't see anything in 222 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.600 the failing light, but it sounded like it was on 223 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:04.759 two feet and that it was fairly close. I called 224 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:08.559 out to it, but it didn't get a response. A 225 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.360 quarter mile up the road, we turned right along the 226 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:15.559 property line. As a result, whatever was following us was 227 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:20.200 now silhouetted against the sun. Did you see that? My 228 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.879 friend cried. He was so upset he couldn't stop blubbering 229 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.440 and wringing his hands. I hadn't seen anything, so he 230 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.000 pointed into the woods and he said, look right there, 231 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.080 at the bottom of a large oak tree, I could 232 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.120 see a shadow about three feet off the ground, peering 233 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.639 back at us. It was all black, made even more 234 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.320 so by the sun behind it, so I couldn't make 235 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:47.480 out any features. I did note, however, that it didn't 236 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.320 have any ears on top of its head, and I 237 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.399 thought that was strange. If it had been a dog 238 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:57.240 or a coyote, I would have expected to see ears, 239 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.639 But since I didn't believe in the legend, it was 240 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:04.519 nothing to be worried about. By now, my friend was 241 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:08.759 having a nervous breakdown. He started begging me to start running. 242 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:12.320 He wanted to get away from there. My family's lived 243 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:16.240 here for generations. I assured him, there's nothing to worry about. 244 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.960 There's nothing here that can hurt you, but he was 245 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:24.080 not impressed. We still had fifty acres of timber to 246 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:28.480 walk through, and the sun was disappearing fast. As it 247 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.320 vanished beyond the horizon, darkness swallowed the woods, leaving us 248 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.559 unable to move forward until the sodium light came on 249 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.960 in the yard so I could find the house. We 250 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.960 moved slowly towards home, and that thing in the woods 251 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:47.279 stayed behind us within fifty feet the entire time, Even 252 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.879 though we had nothing more than a couple of pellet guns. 253 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:53.000 I was never afraid. It had to be some sort 254 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.679 of animal, but nothing to be concerned with. Finally we 255 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:59.720 got back to the house and we're safely in the 256 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:03.679 kit where my friend lost his mind. He called us 257 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:06.440 folks to come get him. They showed up and put 258 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:08.720 him in the floorboard of the car and covered him 259 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:13.679 with a blanket. He was a basket case. The next Monday, 260 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.159 he went to school and told everyone that we had 261 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.000 seen the Foult monster. People asked me what I saw, 262 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.519 and I said it was something small behind a tree, 263 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.200 nothing to be afraid of. The kid quit speaking to 264 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.279 me after that. A few days later he moved to 265 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:33.559 a different school. I wouldn't see him for another six 266 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.159 years when we ran into each other in college history class. 267 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.360 And after all that time, he still would not speak 268 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:45.480 to me. Over two decades passed before I gave it 269 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:49.519 another thought. I was watching an episode of Finding Bigfoot 270 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:53.039 where the witness described an incident that was the same 271 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:57.480 basic story I just related. The biggest difference was that 272 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:01.240 this person's encounter happened to be in Utah. All what 273 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:03.960 he had seen poking out from behind a tree where 274 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.759 the creature's knees. I sat straight up in my chair 275 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.320 as the hair stood up on the back of my neck. 276 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:15.039 I was immediately backing that cutover with that kid. Did 277 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.559 he see more than I did? I can't say I 278 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.360 saw a bigfoot, and I'm not sure what else it 279 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:26.240 could be or what could explain it. Well. Uh, I 280 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:28.799 want to keep wanting to say his name, because he's 281 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.080 got a good name, he's got a good Southern name, 282 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.279 but I won't. I won't say his name, but I 283 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.279 wonder if there's any way to get in touch with 284 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:40.159 this guy and uh, maybe shake his hand and say, hey, 285 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.919 let's bear the hatchet. I think maybe you did see something. 286 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.480 I don't know, but I understand exactly what this writer's saying. 287 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.159 I mean, if I was out in the woods and 288 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.080 somebody said, hey, I saw something, I'd say, Oh, you 289 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.120 didn't see nothing, come on, let's keep going. I'm that way. 290 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.480 I'm like, I'm one of these people that likes to 291 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.159 dismiss things that I encountered that are strange out in 292 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.160 the woods because I always It kind of depends on 293 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.640 who the person is. I think if it was my wife, 294 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.079 I would say, all that's nothing, come on. I mean, 295 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.160 if she hears a little scratching in the house, she 296 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.599 thinks of mouse is in the house. We live in 297 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.359 the country and mice are just a fact of life 298 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.920 out here, but our house is not covered up with 299 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.119 them except in the winter. But it's summertime and we 300 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.480 actually have She saw a mouse run across the handrail 301 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:28.519 on the back porch, so she's freaking out, and I'm like, 302 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:30.880 don't worry about it. That they need a place to 303 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.079 stay too, and I'm gonna have to get rid of 304 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.680 them all. But you get my point. You kind of 305 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:39.119 dismiss these things and you don't think anything else about it. 306 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:41.599 It's not something that's ever on your mind, but it's 307 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.559 on the other person's mind and they get mad at 308 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.400 you for it. And yeah, my wife gets mad at 309 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.200 me when I dismiss her about the mice. So I 310 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:52.599 can see both sides of this, one way or another. 311 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.400 This was a great story and the guy wrote it 312 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.440 just perfectly. It was a great story. And again, I 313 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.160 love these Foult monsters stories, and it was so nice 314 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:06.319 of him to send it in and I really appreciate him. 315 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.200 This is a story that was emailed to me from 316 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:13.599 John O. He is from Australia and this is a 317 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:17.119 great story. My father drove a truck for a road 318 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:21.799 builder one Saturday in nineteen sixty six. He took me 319 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.319 to work with him. I was ten years old at 320 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.759 the time. Dad's boss was building a home at a 321 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.279 place called lang Lang in the state of Victoria, Australia. 322 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:35.000 We drove down there and Dad went to work dragging 323 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.039 a huge timber up and down a dirt road so 324 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.319 that it would look worn. It was the central beam 325 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.079 of the house. There was a dam a couple one 326 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.759 hundred meters down from the building site, and I got 327 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:50.079 the idea to build a raft. I found four ten 328 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:53.440 gallon drums and some nails and timber, and I borrowed 329 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.720 a hammer and I rolled and carried everything down to 330 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.519 the dam. It was hard work for a ten year old, 331 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.119 but I got it done. I'd been at it for 332 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.359 about an hour when I had this overwhelming feeling that 333 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:09.200 I was being watched. I brushed it off and I 334 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.200 kept on working. But then that feeling of danger came 335 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:16.640 over me again. My young sixth sense kept telling me 336 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.720 to pay attention, and I stood up and perused the 337 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.480 tree line at the edge of the clearing around the dam. 338 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.519 I finally noticed a dark, circular shape in the meter 339 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.640 high light brown grass of the clearing, and it disappeared 340 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.839 and then reappeared again, changing from a circular shape to 341 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.640 a more oval shape. I picked up a piece of 342 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.839 timber about twice my height, and it was too big 343 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:44.119 to grip comfortably, and I ignored my inner voice that 344 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.119 was screaming, it's a bore, it's a wild dog, it's 345 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:52.119 a wombat, and I proceeded toward the anomaly. My curiosity 346 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.559 won the battle, and when I got within a couple 347 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:57.319 of meters from the high grass, I put the timber 348 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.559 in front of me and I approached the spot where 349 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.559 I'd seen the shape. I peered over the grass and 350 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.519 I saw an animal that could have dragged me into 351 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:09.720 the bush land and never be seen again. It was 352 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.480 a black panther with brown streaks through its shiny black fur. 353 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.720 I saw it from the left hand side. It was 354 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.480 crouching down and moving away from me. It was agitated, 355 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:23.480 and it was snarling, doing what I would describe as 356 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.799 a fake charge, but in retreat it would turn its 357 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.640 head back toward me, showing me one extremely large canine 358 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:35.039 about the size of an adult index finger. I didn't 359 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.640 realize it at the time, but I had gone in shocked, 360 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.319 and I stood there holding the piece of timber in 361 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:42.720 front of me, one foot in front of the other, 362 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.960 capable of moving only my eyes and head. As I 363 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.759 watched it disappear out of sight. My thoughts were to 364 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:53.119 get out of there, but not to run. How many 365 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.039 more were there, I thought, would that one double back 366 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.960 and get me? How far was I from the safety 367 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:02.400 of the house? And why was my body not moving? 368 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.359 When I finally regained some composure, my legs work like 369 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:10.079 a rusty robot. I stepped back, slowly, keeping the timber 370 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:12.759 piece in front of me. All the while I was 371 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.640 scanning the tall grass and up and down the paddocks 372 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.519 in the bush land. I backed all the way down 373 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.079 the hill and up the other side, And when I 374 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:25.039 finally heard voices close by, I turned and ran straight 375 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.480 for a man who was up a ladder painting the 376 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:30.519 outside of a house. He looked down at me and 377 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.480 he said, hey, son, you look like you've seen a ghost. 378 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:36.680 I couldn't find my voice to answer him. I was 379 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.279 still in shock. I went straight into the living area, 380 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:43.279 where I sat on a pile of timbers, surrounded by workmen, 381 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:46.720 and I pondered what I had just seen. I don't 382 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:49.279 know how long I had been sitting there when I 383 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:53.240 heard my father say, come on, son, let's go. I 384 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:55.759 was never so relieved as I was to get into 385 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.400 that truck and go home. After a while, I finally 386 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:03.119 found my and I said, Dad, I saw a panther today. 387 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.119 He responded with, don't be stupid. There's no sich thing 388 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.240 in Australia. That was it. I never spoke of it again. 389 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:15.160 In the early nineteen nineties, my wife and I took 390 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:17.839 our twins to the zoo and when we got to 391 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.240 the big cat enclosures, we saw a black panther or 392 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:25.039 a leopard with slight brown markings, sitting high up on 393 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:28.920 a log. I stopped in my tracks and gazed in awe. 394 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.839 All of those old emotions came flooding back. This was 395 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:37.680 definitely what I had seen, except to go through it 396 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.200 with my wife on several occasions. I have kept this 397 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.119 experience locked away since I was ten years old. She's 398 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.039 a good listener, Thank God, and I realize now that 399 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.519 the peace September I was holding had probably saved my wife. 400 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:55.440 In nineteen sixty six, when I was ten, there was 401 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:58.720