WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.279 My first contact was Sasquatch was when I was twelve 2 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.679 years old. I was playing in the deep woods one 3 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.640 hundred yards from my back door. Back in those days, 4 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.000 there weren't a lot of expensive toys to occupy my time, 5 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.000 so I was playing army all by myself. I was 6 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:32.439 in a location where there was an ovular ovular ovular. 7 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:35.560 I can't pronounce that word. I was in a location 8 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.479 where there was an ovular ovular ring of trees, and 9 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.520 when they shed their needles, they made an ovular build 10 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:48.320 up around their bases. Inside this shape, there was also 11 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:52.200 a pile of dried needles that made a nice cushy spot. 12 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:55.320 Anybody new to this podcast, there are some words that 13 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.359 I can't pronounce, so I just throw something out there 14 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:01.280 and look for people in the common section to correct me, 15 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.200 because I know you will. But the word is ov 16 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:08.239 u la r ovuler. I think that's maybe that's what 17 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.840 it is. Anyway, Sorry to get hung up on that. 18 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.400 Back to the story. I was playing soldier there and 19 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.000 decided I needed to do a quick hid and cover, 20 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:20.920 and I dove into this bed of needles like I 21 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:25.079 had many times before, but this time I startled a 22 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:29.680 large animal when I landed, something big and heavy took 23 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.480 off and ran away. It felt like thunder in the ground, 24 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.640 even on that bed of needles, and I felt every 25 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:40.439 step it took vibrating through the earth. I had never 26 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:43.560 heard about sasquatch, but at that moment, all I could 27 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.000 think was that I had snuck up on some kind 28 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:51.079 of a giant and then it ran away. My second 29 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.599 contact was during a hunting trip with my brother. At 30 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.519 that time, I was thirty years old, and we were 31 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.359 hunting in the hills of North Goldendale, Washington, near the 32 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:06.439 Yakima Indian Reservation border. We had been hunting for about 33 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.960 an hour when I broke into a large clearing where 34 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.800 the sun had started to shine. There was a big stump, 35 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.680 so I sat and leaned against it with my rifle 36 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.719 in my lap to watch the clearing. But the sun 37 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:21.560 was so warm, and I was so tired from working 38 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:25.800 the graveyard shift the night before that I soon fell asleep. 39 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.840 I must have napped for an hour, and when I woke, 40 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.240 my eyes focused across the clearing at the timberline, and 41 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.960 there it was a bigfoot in a squatted position, and 42 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.879 he was studying me as soon as it noticed that 43 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:44.960 I was awake. It stood up, and it turned and 44 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.879 it walked away. I was so stunned that I didn't 45 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:51.599 even get up to try to follow it. It was 46 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.400 two minutes later when my brother called my name and 47 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.800 asked if I had seen anything. I sure as hell did, 48 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.319 I felt like saying, but instead I laughed and I 49 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.800 said I hadn't. The third contact happened while I was 50 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.280 hunting in the hills of the Columbia River. I was 51 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.599 watching a ravine that was filled with scrub oak trees. 52 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.479 It was bushy at the top but open in the ravine. 53 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:19.960 I was sitting there and I heard a noise coming 54 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.639 down the ravine, like an entire herd of deer was 55 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:26.319 headed my way. I got ready to pick a target, 56 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:30.599 but no deer ever came. Instead, a stampede of gray 57 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:35.240 squirrels raced through the treetops like Satan himself was on 58 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:39.439 their heels. At one point, when the stampede passed by me, 59 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:44.120 there was an intense stinky horse sweat body odor smell 60 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:48.400 that filled the area. When the stampede passed me, so 61 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:52.319 did the smell. Never saw anything, but I did feel 62 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:57.000 like that I was not alone. My fourth contact happened 63 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.520 when I took my grandson camping on the side of 64 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:03.400 mountain near in the White Pass. The first evening, I 65 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:07.120 heard a sasquatch call. It was impressive how much air 66 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:11.360 of this thing's lungs could load. His below lasted for 67 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.039 twenty full seconds. I tried to emulate it, but I 68 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:19.079 ran out of air after about eight seconds. My fifth 69 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:21.959 contact happened when I took my wife camping in the 70 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.160 White Pass. The first day we were there, we walked 71 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:27.720 along the rocky beach of the river that we were 72 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.759 camping next to. The river. Rock was not easy to 73 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:35.279 walk on, but was apparently great for making Okay, here's 74 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:41.319 another word, Carns Cairns Cairns. Never heard that word before 75 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:45.600 in my life. These are man made piles of flat stones. 76 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.279 There were two at the time. I added a small 77 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.560 rock at the top of one stack, and the next 78 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.040 morning the stacks had all been leveled. I think Bigfoot 79 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.560 walked through there and said, not today, hippie, y'all seeing 80 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.720 those videos where people are not those down, I think 81 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.920 they're funny. The second night we were there, a sasquatch 82 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.040 came into our camp while we were sleeping, ran a 83 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.920 finger along the side of our tent, right against my 84 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.199 wife's back, startled her awake, but she didn't tell me 85 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.839 until we were home from the camping trip. And the 86 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:25.399 sixth and final encounter who six in his life? Unbelievable. 87 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:29.759 The sixth and final account encounter was when my wife 88 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:34.120 and I were camped in the upper click atat Valley. 89 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:39.759 This time I had taken gifts. I had taken silk flowers, marbles, 90 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.680 a large plastic toy soldier, and a box of apples. Unfortunately, 91 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.560 I became ill the first night there and decided that 92 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.720 we needed to sleep in my pickup truck. The apples 93 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.279 were left in the bed of my pickup truck. My 94 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:57.519 wife's little yapper Mutt was along with us, and I 95 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.839 had the windows down a couple of inches for Fini. 96 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.839 We heard nothing the entire night, and the dog never 97 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.439 barked or growled once. But the next morning the entire 98 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:13.000 box was gone. The debris on the forest floor prevented 99 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.879 me from seeing any tracks, but we were the only 100 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.040 campers for miles. I think a sly bigfoot was laughing 101 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.839 at us while he ate the apples throughout the night. 102 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.720 Oh that's a good story. I don't know I guess 103 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.480 I'm jealous of these people that have encounter after encounter 104 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:34.199 after encounter. They see them all the time. I can't 105 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:38.879 even see a footprint. I never see anything. What is 106 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.360 it about me that keeps me from seeing a bigfoot? 107 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:45.519 I want to see a bigfoot. Everybody else sees them. 108 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.439 Everybody that writes me sees them and encounters them, some 109 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:52.120 people multiple times through their lives. Not me. I know 110 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:54.800 I'm kind of acting like a baby, but I kind 111 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.639 of feel a little pissed about it. Anyway, I'm glad 112 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.480 y'all see bigfoot, but I'm not glad. I don't so 113 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.839 how yak gat? Anyway, this was a very good story, 114 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.879 well put together, and I appreciate the writers sending it 115 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:14.240 because it is very interesting. Thank you. This was an 116 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:18.240 ongoing encounter that went on for a month or two. 117 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.839 This event happened in nineteen ninety four in the Midwest. 118 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.920 I worked nights doing custodial work, and my family lived 119 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.160 out in the country. Wasn't all that remote, just a 120 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:33.639 rural part of a small town. Each time I arrived 121 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:35.920 home and got out of my car after work, I 122 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.720 started noticing lights in the sky. They seemed lower and 123 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.759 brighter than the other stars and much closer. It was 124 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.720 a bright white light, but I also saw blue and 125 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.399 red flashes with pulsating lights. The light didn't move across 126 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.240 the sky like an airplane, or I would have just 127 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.199 assumed that it was that and I would have moved on. 128 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.279 There were at least two, sometimes up to four of them, 129 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.199 spaced out in different directions. The lights seemed to be 130 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.600 observing somehow. When I saw them, it was like they 131 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.600 moved in closer to me, zooming in on my location. 132 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.040 They would remain in the same spot for hours and 133 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.680 then drift away slowly, but sometimes it was as if 134 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:24.680 they shut the light off. Stars don't do that. We 135 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:27.839 had an outdoor barn light on a pole in the backyard. 136 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.879 When these lights in the sky appeared, the backyard light 137 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.279 would get brighter, as if someone was slowly turning up 138 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:38.799 the intensity. I noticed that if a car went down 139 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.480 the road, the light would gradually dim back to normal, 140 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.440 and then when the car was gone, the light would 141 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:48.840 gradually intensify again. The barn light would be so bright 142 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.480 that it looked like early morning, right before the sun 143 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:56.759 came up. When I went inside, every lamp or electronic 144 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.919 device the stereo, the numbers on the digital alarm clock, 145 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.279 and anything with the light got more intense, just like 146 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.759 the barn light, and then would slowly go back to normal. 147 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.200 The lights would all be in sinc and would all 148 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:14.879 do it at the same time. I got an uneasy 149 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:18.360 feeling while this went on. I felt like whatever was 150 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.639 causing this was waiting for me to come home. One night, 151 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:25.399 I waited in my car and sunk down in my seat. 152 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.919 I just waited and watched for the lights to intensify. 153 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.320 Now this freaked me out, so I waited for the 154 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.200 lights dim when the car went up the road, and 155 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.639 then ran for the house and hid behind the recliner 156 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.360 for a few hours. I did this for several nights. 157 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.360 Of course, no one else in the house saw anything, 158 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:47.919 and I started to think I was losing it. I 159 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.679 was no longer curious as to what was causing this. 160 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.240 I just wanted it to go away. I would come 161 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.639 home and walk in and turn off the lamp my 162 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.440 family had left on for me, and I'd find my 163 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.480 way through through the dark. I felt like something or 164 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:06.600 someone was looking for me, and paranoia started to set in. 165 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.879 During this time, I also had trouble sleeping. Several times 166 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.600 I had sleep paralysis. I'd be in that state in 167 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:19.600 between sleep and awaken. I couldn't move my body. The 168 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.360 only thing I could move was my eyes. I didn't 169 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.080 see a thing, but I felt this terrible dread and 170 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:29.679 uneasiness come over me. I couldn't speak at all, even 171 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:34.159 my tongue was numb. Eventually I was able to force 172 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.559 a word out. If I forced the name of Jesus out, 173 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:42.879 it would stop. The light shows seemed to escalate over time. 174 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.039 One night, while making my way to my bedroom in 175 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.799 the dark, I walked past the door to my parents' room, 176 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.399 which was open. Out there window, I saw what looked 177 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.840 like search lights, like the extremely bright white light you 178 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.879 see on a police helicopter searching for someone on the 179 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.519 It was shining the light back and forth across the driveway, 180 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:07.679 then the yard, and then into their window. But I 181 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.799 knew there was no helicopter. There was only a low 182 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:14.159 rumble that went on all night, like the gentle rumble 183 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:17.559 of an air conditioner kicking on, but deeper and so 184 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:21.559 heavy you could feel the vibration of it. I hid 185 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:26.240 in my bed until I eventually fell asleep. That next morning, 186 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:29.320 after my family had all left for work, I could 187 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:33.720 still hear that low rumble. After a while, whatever it 188 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:38.440 was finally left and the rumbling sound drifted above the clouds. 189 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.080 I saw nothing outside, but I had the TV on 190 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.600 the morning news, and while I was watching out the 191 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:48.279 screen door, the TV turned off. Well that was it 192 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.360 for me. I was totally freaked out, and I drove 193 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:55.840 to my boyfriend's apartment that weekend. While hanging out with him, 194 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.120 I swore I still heard the low rumble above the 195 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:03.759 clouds above apartment, as if it was following me. I 196 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.080 was a basket case for a while. One morning, my 197 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.080 mother got up and found me crouched behind the reclining 198 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:14.559 chair hiding from the lights. Eventually I had to start 199 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.159 ignoring the blinking lights in the sky or I was 200 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.320 going to be committed. I have no doubt about that. 201 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:25.159 I started going inside when I got home, not looking up, 202 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.799 and straight to bed or doing sit ups until I 203 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:30.559 was so exhausted and I had to go to sleep. 204 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.799 To my relief, my then boyfriend and now husband saw 205 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.759 the lights too. One time, he flipped one off from 206 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.759 his car while he was driving, and in front of 207 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:47.120 our eyes it literally shut off. We both saw that happen. 208 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.039 Even today, I occasionally noticed the blinking lights every now 209 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.720 and then, but I ignore them. I live in a 210 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.080 different state. Now, I decided it was not just me. 211 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.399 They were watching and observing. They were waiting for someone 212 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.600 to notice them. My husband is the only other person 213 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.679 who has heard this entire story. I didn't dare share 214 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.480 all of it with others, and we all know why. 215 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.759 Oh wow, that's kind of scary. I'm assuming she shared 216 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:21.440 the whole story with us. I've heard of stories like this. 217 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:25.039 I've gotten stories like this where people are just tormented 218 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.320 by something and they never know what it was. My 219 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:34.759 thought and always goes to well, like she said, I'm 220 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.559 just repeating what she said. I'm not accusing her of 221 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:42.799 this or diagnosing this problem that she was just paranoid. 222 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:47.720 But this letter seems perfectly legible. It doesn't wander all 223 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.639 over the place. Seems like a person who has their 224 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:56.000 thoughts together and that who knows what they saw. It's scary. 225 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:59.600 I'm glad to find out that this is eased up 226 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.600 quite a bit. A lot of people will say, you've 227 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.799 probably been visited by whatever these things are, and you know, 228 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.799 the longer time goes on, the more evidence. We just 229 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:15.480 saw videos on the news of some kind of craft 230 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:19.600 flying over the top of the ocean and the I 231 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.639 can't even remember where it was, somewhere in the Middle East. 232 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:27.279 I think I believe the Americans shot a hellfire missile 233 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:29.799 at it and hit it, and the missile just like 234 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.679 either went through it and a couple of three little 235 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:36.840 pieces broke off of this whatever this UFO was, but 236 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.399 they didn't fall in the water. They just kept going 237 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.519 with the craft. I know hundreds of people have seen 238 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.200 this video, and I don't even know if you haven't 239 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.120 seen it, what to tell you to search for. I 240 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.440 just kind of flipped through these shorts a lot of 241 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.840 times and it popped up, and I thought, man, that's crazy. Anyway, 242 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.360 here's what I'm getting at. This stuff is becoming more 243 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:02.559 and more and more evidence, much more than Bigfoot. There's 244 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:09.559 one hundred times more evidence for paranormal beings from another realm, 245 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:14.720 another planet. There's one hundred times more evidence of that 246 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.240 than there is for Bigfoot. And people aren't interested, at 247 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:21.960 least on this channel as much as in these UFO stories. 248 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:26.360 But it really intrigues me because it seems more real 249 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:30.080 because there's more evidence. And I know people say, hell, 250 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.480 there's pictures and videos of Bigfoot all over the place. 251 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:37.919 Ninety nine percent of are hoaxes, and they're obviously hoaxes. 252 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:42.559 But this stuff, right hear, these lights and these crafts 253 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.919 flying around and under the ocean, in the ocean, we 254 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.120 got videos of all these things by military. The people 255 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.159 in the federal government are coming out and saying it's real. 256 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.840 It's everywhere. So what is all this stuff? Some people 257 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.279 say it's demonic. Can't Why would a demon you a 258 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.279 UFO to try it? Just doesn't None of that make sense. 259 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.720 I'm not saying I know what it is, but I'm 260 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.279 saying there's a lot of stuff. If you just use 261 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.399 critical thinking skills, you can rule out a lot of 262 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.639 things that people think it is. This was an interesting story, 263 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.080 and I'm glad to hear that she is doing better 264 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.440 and not as tormented as she was. Thank you for 265 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:22.720 sharing the whole story. I assume it's the whole story. 266 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.320 Thank you for sharing it with us. Thank you to 267 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:33.600 the writer. In two thousand and two, I was freshly divorced. 268 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.000 I had very little money, and the time I spent 269 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.840 with my children was precious. I wound up doing a 270 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.840 lot of things outdoors in order to tire them out 271 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:48.240 and get them away from their computers. My kids had 272 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.960 a limited time to spend in the hot weather of 273 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.919 central Florida, so I used to take them for bike 274 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.320 rides at the local park. One time, we were two 275 00:16:57.399 --> 00:16:59.919 miles into the park on our bikes when my daughter 276 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:04.039 started sobbing and yelling are we going now? Daddy? Can 277 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.920 we go now? She kept it up until we turned 278 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.480 around and headed back to the parking lot. My son 279 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.480 and I were concerned and a bit overheated, but we 280 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:19.200 still giggled at her with her theatrical shouts. I was 281 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:21.519 a bit upset to end the ride so early, but 282 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.759 looking back, who knows what was really going on or 283 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:30.000 if she had seen something that scared her. In twenty fifteen, 284 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.799 I was riding my bike alone in the same part, 285 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.559 enjoying being outdoors and having the place to myself. An 286 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.640 hour into my ride, I had gotten about six miles 287 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.640 in when the rain shower started. I was peddling through 288 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.440 sugar sand and it was burning the heck out of 289 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.160 my legs, so I decided to get off my bike 290 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.960 and walk instead. I got to a place that I 291 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.559 had passed on the way in. It was off the 292 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:59.559 beaten path and had legs and swamps and a clear 293 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.799 path along the power lines. I decided to leave my 294 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.279 bike and look around the swamps and the wetland for 295 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.920 a bit. The rain was tapering off, but it was steady, 296 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.079 and it made the whole area look like it was 297 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.960 in the shadows. To my left or swamps, and on 298 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.880 my right was a saturated open field that led to 299 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.720 the lake, with a power line in between the two. 300 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.359 I walked along the power line path and I heard 301 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.079 the distinct sound of something plunking away at bicycle spokes. 302 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.680 It's a metallic sound that I knew from my children's 303 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.880 bikes and mine when I was a kid. The sound 304 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:40.839 stopped about twenty five feet from me, right where I 305 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.279 had left my bike, and I stopped walking. There was 306 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.599 no other sound but the rain. In Florida, if you're 307 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.640 near the swamps, there always seems to be frogs and 308 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:54.079 other critters making a fuss, but at that moment, there 309 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:58.039 was nothing. I stood there for a moment listening, and 310 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:02.759 I heard someone whisper was almost unintelligible. It sounded like 311 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.279 a little girl's voice talking to someone. She was asking 312 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:10.599 a question. Now I was confused. I was not in 313 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.279 a place where a child should be, and even if 314 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.880 there were other people, I would have seen them. I 315 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:21.480 waited another moment, and then I said hello again. I 316 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.440 heard more whispers from this little girl's voice. This time 317 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.200 I heard her clearly, and she asked, when are we 318 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:33.720 going to leave? I was really confused. I couldn't see anything. 319 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.720 The voice was coming from directly in front of me, 320 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.039 but there was nothing there. It was just a little 321 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:46.160 girl's distressed voice, pleading to go home. I'm always comfortable 322 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.160 in the forest, but I was starting to get a 323 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.079 bit freaked out. And then the girl's voice screamed, are 324 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:56.200 we going home now? Daddy? The end of her sentence 325 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:58.559 built up to a high pitched scream that made my 326 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:03.000 gut hurt. I was stunned and scared. My first instinct 327 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:05.640 was to get the heck out of there, but for 328 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.559 some reason, my mouth betrayed me, and again I said hello. 329 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.759 I took a step forward and betrayed my feet. This time, 330 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.480 whatever was with me in the woods shot away from 331 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.359 me at a speed that was supernatural, like it had 332 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.279 been attached to a cable and was being pulled away, 333 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:29.720 shooting across the wet, boggy Florida wetlands. I stood there 334 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.000 with my head reeling, thinking I was about to throw up. 335 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.720 I stayed where I was for ten minutes, collecting my 336 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:40.400 thoughts about what I had just experienced. I had seen 337 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:43.359 nothing but the voice and the scream and the metallic 338 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:46.200 sound of the bicycle spokes were stuck in my head. 339 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:50.559 I eventually gathered myself and headed to the parking lot 340 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:55.119 without any other incident. Oh man, that's kind of spooky. 341 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:57.680 I don't know. This may sound weird, but it's kind 342 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:00.880 of intriguing to me. I don't think there was anything 343 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.839 there that he felt was after him, but he was. 344 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.279 I don't know. What do you guys think? What was 345 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.160 he hearing? A lot of people say ghosts or demonic 346 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:14.079 I tend to go that route. I don't. I'm a 347 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.279 Bible believer, and I believe, you know, we're either here 348 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:20.119 or we're with the Lord and the only thing left 349 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:25.359 on earth or living humans and demons. And I don't know. 350 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.319 I could be wrong about all that. I don't make 351 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:31.759 real y'all know, I never talk about spiritual stuff or 352 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:36.440 political stuff too much. Never political stuff. Good Lord, man, 353 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:39.359 what a world we live in with this political junk, 354 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:45.839 but this supernatural stuff, spiritual stuff. Sometimes it perplexes me. 355 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:48.680 And I was talking to my wife the other day 356 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:53.720 about it was nothing about this, but what I've learned 357 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:57.759 in my life is that usually with big problems or 358 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:04.240 big incidents, there's always the one thing. People try to 359 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:07.480 complicate it and spread it out and make it about 360 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.759 a bunch of things. It's usually the one thing. But 361 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.680 here's what I'm getting at. I think the one things 362 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:18.319 the one thing is in these type situations is that 363 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.720 it's probably a demonic presence somewhere that you've encountered. It's 364 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:27.000 just my opinion. I'm not making a categorical statement or 365 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.359 a singular statement. That's just what I think it is. 366 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:34.599 And it kind of goes along with my one thing theory. 367 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:38.759 There's always that one thing. Anyway, I thought i'd share 368 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:40.599 my thoughts with you on that. I'm not sure why 369 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:43.200 I did, but I just kind of popped in my head, 370 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.240 so I thought i'd say it. So there you go. 371 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:47.839 Thank you to the writer for sending the story. It 372 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:52.319 was really good, really good, kind of spooky, but very intriguing. 373 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:58.680 Thank you. I grew up in the wild and wonderful 374 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:03.279 state of West by God, Virginia. Now I live in Kentucky, 375 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:06.799 just across the Big Sandy River. I don't know if 376 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:10.519 I believe in cryptids, aliens, or anything ghost related, but 377 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:13.240 I am one hundred percent sure that I believe in 378 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:16.960 shadow people because I encountered one when I was eight 379 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:21.039 years old. This happened in a small town in West 380 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:25.480 Virginia named Fort Gay and Wayne County. We lived in 381 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.839 an old, two bedroom, one bath house rented to my 382 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:33.079 family by a man named Frank. He owned dozens of 383 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:36.000 rental homes and hundreds of acres of property in our 384 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:41.440 little town. According to several neighbors and other town residents. 385 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.079 In the nineteen fifties, Frank used our house to meet 386 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.119 with some other men in town to drink, gamble, and 387 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.000 do things that were publicly frowned upon back in those 388 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:55.839 days in a small religious town. One night, back in 389 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:59.119 the nineteen sixties, Frank and his friends were drinking and 390 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:05.119 playing poker. Someone accused another of cheating at cards. Tempers flared, 391 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:08.559 somebody pulled a gun and blew a man's brains out 392 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:12.359 right there in that very house. My big sister and 393 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:15.079 I had to share the second bedroom, which wasn't a 394 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:17.960 problem since we were just little kids at the time. 395 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:21.359 My aunt and uncle hadn't seen our new place yet 396 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.519 and they were coming to spend the weekend with us 397 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:27.160 in the new house. My mom set up our room 398 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:29.200 for them, and that meant one of us had to 399 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:31.440 sleep on the couch and the other got to sleep 400 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.440 with Mom and dad. I don't know if you remember 401 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:38.119