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Speaker 1: Okay, here's a bigfoot story from Colorado. The writer says,

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I went elk hunting in Colorado with my whole family,

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and the first couple of days went by without seeing

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anything at all. That's unusual, since in Colorado they're always deer.

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On the second evening, my brothers and I decided to

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split up and cover different sides of the mountain to

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look for recent signs of the game. My youngest brother

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came back to camp well before the rest of us

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did and went to pick up our nephews who were

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up on a logging road barely wide enough for his truck.

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He drove about a mile up there and had to

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stop because of a line of rocks half a tire tall,

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and they stretched across the road. He got out and

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moved a couple of them out of the way, and

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he kept driving. Nephews had hopped in and they started

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back down the hill. My brother saw that the rocks

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he had just moved had been replaced by even bigger rocks,

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taller than his tires. He got out and started pushing

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them out of the way. When one of the nephews said,

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look at that, Harry elk. My brother looked where he

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was pointing and yelled at the boys to get back

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in the truck and to roll the windows up. He

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almost blew his back out getting the rocks out of

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the way. Then he jumped back in the truck and

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tore off down the road toward the camp. He told

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me what happened later that night. That damn rooster. He

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told me what happened later that night, when the rest

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of us got back, he said that it was not

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an elk at all. It was something eight feet tall,

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covered in hair and peeking out from behind a tree.

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That night, I swear I'm on shoot him. That night,

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my brother slept in his truck, and my brother and

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his family, my other brother and his family he went

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to their tent. My wife and kids and dogs and

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I went into our slide ind camper and we slowly

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drifted off. About three am, something woke me. I looked

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around and I saw my two dogs frozen staring at

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the door. Right then, something nudged the camper, as if

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testing how much it weighed. It was pitch black outside,

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so I decided to wait until daylight to figure out

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what had happened. Come morning, I found my young brother

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already up sitting in his truck with his knife on

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his lap. He told me he was woken up around

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two thirty am by something pushing down on his truck

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and trying to see if anyone was inside. Since it

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was too dark to see, he decided to stay up

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until morning. We left that night. Now here's my second experience.

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It happened in twenty fifteen, during deer season. I had

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decided to go up the mountain for the last weekend

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to hunt, and since none of my brothers could take

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time off work, I was there alone. Well, Saturday was

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a boring day, but the night was unforgettable. I got

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back to camp just at dark and hurried to start

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a fire so I could fix dinner. As soon as

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the fire caught, I began cutting the larger pieces of wood.

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I heard codes start to yip and howl. A minute

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later came a deep guttural yell just below me on

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the mountain, cutting the coyotes right off. An hour later,

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some rocks bounced off of trees around my camp, with

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a few hitting my tent, and every time I shined

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my light into the woods, the rock throwing stopped, and

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when I turned the light off, it started again and

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every time I tried to ignore it, the rocks got

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bigger and bigger. I ended up sleeping in my jeep

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and I left the next morning. My last encounter was man,

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he's got another one. My last encounter was during this

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year's elk season. My brother and I were walking up

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an old logging road so overgrown that we could barely

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get through. After a few hours, we turned back, and

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when we were just about to reach the main road,

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a loud whistling came from a creek bed down below.

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My brother and I were looking for blaze orange since

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it was rifle season and hunters are required to wear that,

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but we only saw trees. Every time we took a

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step towards the main road, the whistling from the creek

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would sound again, as if trying to lure us down there.

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After a few minutes of us standing there, confused and listening,

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you can bet our last dollar that we hotfooted. Hot footed.

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We hotfooted it out of there and didn't go back

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to that spot for an evening hunt. Okay, first, I'm

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sorry about that old loud rooster crowing, but my chickens

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have been through some trauma the last month or so,

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and I'm just not chasing them off or anything. I'm

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just letting them relax, get back used to the area,

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quit learning about dogs killing them. I don't know if

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I told y'all or not, but we had twenty plus

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chickens killed by a pack of four wild dogs that

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came in one night and bowled their way into our

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chicken coop. And it was a total carnage in the

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chicken coop. And it was so sad. I'll never forget

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my wife just wailing, and she loves these birds, and

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all I wanted to do was just put my hands

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over my ears and not hear her doing that. But

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it was a horrible couple of days picking all those

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birds up, throwing them out, and there he goes again

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and get rid of them. But back on this story,

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this man has had three encounters. One his family had

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a visual on a road. It's just unbelievable. Well how

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these animals just mess with people, These bigfoots just mess

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with people. But it was a very good story, very

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well written, and thank you to the writer for sending it. Okay,

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this is my first podcast that will be uploaded exclusively

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have recently been booted from YouTube. I've got five stories

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bring up an archive podcast. What that means is and

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why I do that is because there are new people

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joining all the time. I have a library of eight

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years thousands of stories that they may not go back

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and listen to, but I'd like them to hear them.

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They're great stories, and so I'll be dropping them behind

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these new podcast stories. And if you'll go through my library,

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you'll see I have an archived podcast. I think I

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was up to two hundred almost May. I can't remember.

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I started doing those a year ago, just bringing up

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They've been on YouTube, but not on this podcast app

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and because I wanted people to hear them, because some

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of them are great. Anyway, that's all I got to say.

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Thank you for listening, and we're about to get into

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a brand new podcast, a brand new phase for the

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what if It's True podcast life, and I'm kind of

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excited about it. All. Right, here we go. My girlfriend

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and I were staying the night at our close friend's house.

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We were playing Xbox and looking at our phones and

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just hanging out When it got late. She and I

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said our good nights, and we went downstairs and laid

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on two separate couches in the living room, and we

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left a lamp on in case one of us needed

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to get up and go to the bathroom. I laid

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there for a while, having trouble falling asleep, when the

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silence was broken by someone coming down the stairs. The

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footsteps walked through the doggie gate, opened it, and made

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their way into the kitchen. I figured it was our

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friend or his mother coming down for a glass of

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water or something to eat, and I looked up to

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see what it was, only to find an empty, dark kitchen.

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I figured I must have been hearing things, and I

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tried to sleep again. As I lay there with my

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eyes closed, I could see light from the lamp through

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my eyelids. Then a dark shadow started swaying side to

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side in front of a light, like a hand waving

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over my face. I opened my eyes quickly to see

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who it was, but there was nothing but the ceiling

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above me. I was a little spook, but it was late,

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and I knew my tired mind could have been playing

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tricks on me, so I rolled onto my stomach and

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after a long while, I must have fallen asleep. In

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the morning, my girlfriend and I woke up to the

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sound of my alarm. We said goodbye to our buddies

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and we headed back home. But on our drive back

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I told her what happened, she froze. She said she

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felt like something was watching her the entire night. At

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one point she saw a shit too like a human head,

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staring over the couch at her, and it was swaying

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back and forth. We were both shocked and disturbed, and

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later on I asked my friend if it had been

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him playing a trick on us. He responded with a

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hard no. I like to think there's a rational explanation

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for what we saw, but I can't figure out what

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it could be. My friend has a small husky that

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has been kindled every night in the room we were

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sleeping in, but I think i'd have heard it if

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she undid the lock by herself and stuck her nose

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in my face. Keep up the good work. We like

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your podcast. Thanks for sharing my story. Well, you're welcome.

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That to me is terrifying. I can't imagine being in

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a strange house, laying on a couch you didn't actually

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see it, but your girlfriend did, and that it confirms

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what you kind of peripherally saw. That would scare the

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crap out of me, and I would be worried for

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the family that lives there. It must be some kind

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of entity in the house. But it's a great story

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and I certainly appreciate you sending it to me. Man,

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it was such a spooky story. Thank you. Here is

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a story from Australia. It's a Yale story and I

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thought this was really good. So here we go. We

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have a hobby farm in central Victoria where we run

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a few cattle and fifty odd sheet It covers two

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hundred acres and around seventeen thousand hectacres of state forest.

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Our caravan is permanently parked on the edge of the forest,

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and that's where I realized I knew nothing about what's

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really out there. Eight years ago, my family went to

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the farm to shoot some rabbits for food and do

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some gold prospecting and pop some foxes and feral cats.

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Back then, our cabins and caravans were in a small

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fenced off section on the farm so the cattle wouldn't

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wander during the night. Well, one morning around four am,

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my wife and I were woken by something big, growling

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and grunting no less than fifteen meters away. Judging by

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our dog's reaction, who was shaking at our feet, I

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thought it was something big, probably a predator. The next morning,

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I looked for tracks, but I didn't find anything unusual,

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and I asked my brothers if they had heard the

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strange growling, but no one had heard anything. Dad said

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it was a mum snoring, and then I described what

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it sounded like, and they just laughed it off. That

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is until we found some sheep dead nearby, with their

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legs pulled off their bodies. Now, when dogs kill an animal,

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they make a huge mess of it. You'll find blood

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everywhere in parts scattered cats will go for the animal's throat.

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But we found no damage to the bodies at all.

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Only something with the great power can pull a sheep's

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leg off without making a mess. Well, Dad destrugged off

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and said people must have done this. We started hearing

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stories from locals about a beast to Some said it

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was a panther and other claimed it was a yowie.

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I hadn't heard about that thing since I was a kid,

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so I started reading about it online, and I was

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shocked by how many sightings had been reported nearer our farm.

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Since that night, I've become obsessed with cryptozoology. After a

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few years, my daughter was born, and as soon as

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she could walk, we started hitting the woods every chance

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we could. One time, she wanted to have lunch in

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the woods, so I took the day off work and

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there we went, And when we reached the creek and

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began setting up, she started crying, saying she wanted to

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go home. This girl was fearless in the woods. She

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even got bitten by a snake at three months old

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and didn't shed a tear. What to see her upset

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like that told me something bad had scared her. So

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we packed up and left. What is it, mate, Nothing

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will hurt you out here, I told her. As we

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headed back toward the car. She said it was a

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big brown monkey by the water and that he didn't

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like me. She said it was a bad one, not

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like the others on the farm. She said it was

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just watching me, but it didn't see him. Well, that

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scared the crap out of me. I intentionally never told

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her about Yawe's because I didn't want to scare her

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from exploring the woods. So how did she know there

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were good ones and bad ones. We talked a bit

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more and she told me the ones at the farm

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wouldn't hurt us because we're good with the animals. But

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she also said that some don't want us there. And

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not long after that, I found some clear tracks at

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our farm. I've been right into animals my whole life.

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I volunteered to help wildlife at home for fifteen years,

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and our house is like a zoo. We have wombats

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in our bed and magpie sleeping on the shower head

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in the bathroom. We have kangaroos fighting me whenever I

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hung out, washing in the backyard, and possum stealing biscuits

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from the kitchen. I started my own many reptiles zoo

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the second I turned thirteen, when I could finally get

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my advanced reptile license, and suddenly we had venomous snakes

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in the house, lizards in every bedroom, and crocodiles under

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the house. I like to think I knew just about

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everything that was to know about most Australian animals, but

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now I know better. My daughter likes listening to your stories,

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so I thought I would tell you ours. I stay

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safe and thank you for what you do. Okay, mate,

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thank you for the story. Wow wow, what a life

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you live. And please tell your daughter I said hello

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and thank you for talking you. In descending the story,

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this Australian yawe sounds similar to the stories that we

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hear about sasquatching North America. There's some good ones, some

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bad ones. Apparently they have a thing with kids, and

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I don't know what that is, but kids see things

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in these creatures that adults don't. Sometimes kids see them

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and adults don't see them. But it's really odd. Who knows.

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We don't have any in captivity and there's no way

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to study them, but it is some interesting anecdotal evidence

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and behavioral traits that just make you think, make you think,

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what's going on with these There's good ones, there's bad ones.

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How do you ever know if you run up on

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a good one or a bad one? How do you know?

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I guess after a few minutes you would know. But

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that's that's just my opinion. I don't know anything about

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this stuff other than what people write in these stories.

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But stay stafe on your stay safe on your farm, sir,

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and bring that little girl up and watch her become

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a woman. It's really a cool thing. I've got a

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daughter and it was so fun watching her grow up

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and then become an adult. I just love it. I

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love it, love being a dad. All right, mate, thanks

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for the story. All right, here's the story about a

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possible UFO. It was a Friday night in May and

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my girlfriend and I were walking north on Fort Myers

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Beach near the Neptune Hotel. We saw three orange lights

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on the horizon and we stopped to watch them. I

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thought they may have been several planes approaching the regional

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Southwest Airport, as we'd seen several commercial jets fly over

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on their way to landing. But these lights were moving

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at least twice as fast. As they neared the north

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end of Fort Myers Beach Island, they changed direction and

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disappeared above the clouds. We stood there wondering what we

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had just seen, when three more lights moving just like

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the first ones. During the ten minutes we stood there watching,

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we saw fifteen of these orange lights turn and head

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out over the Gulf of Mexico and changed direction and

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vanish into the clouds. Just as one group disappeared over

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the Gulf more would appear on the horizon. Back home

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in Illinois, I live two miles from a large commercial airport.

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I see and hear jets and private aircraft every day

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and night. But the lights we saw were not from

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any aircraft that I know of, and at no point

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did we see the red and white flashing strobe lights

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that usually indicate a plane. I've traveled to Florida every

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year for vacation, but that is the only time I've

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seen these lights, and I've tried to find an explanation,

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but I still have no idea what they could have been.

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I've had an experience or two like this. I've seen

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strange lights in the sky, and I think that's why

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these stories really really interest me. Some people have Bigfoot experiences,

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so they kind of gravitate towards the Bigfoot stories. I've

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had an experience like this. I think I've told it

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on this podcast before. Maybe i'll tell it again pretty soon.

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But this is very interesting, especially that they could see

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it so well over the Gulf. I spend some time

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down there. It's a beautiful place, and I don't know

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I'd like to see lights over the Gulf too, So

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thank you so much for sending the story. I thought

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it was great. My girlfriend and I were staying the

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night at our close friend's house. We were playing Xbox

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and looking at our phones and just hanging out. When

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it got late, she and I said our good nights,

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and we went downstairs and laid on two separate couches

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in the living room, and we left a lamp on

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in case one of us needed to get up and

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go to the bathroom. I laid there for a while,

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having trouble falling asleep, when the silence was broken by

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someone coming down the stairs. The footsteps walked through the

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doggie gate, opened it, and made their way into the kitchen.

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I figured it was our friend or his mother coming

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down for a glass of water or something to eat,

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and I looked up to see what it was, only

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to find an empty, dark kitchen. I figured I must

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have been hearing things, and I tried to sleep again.

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As I lay there with my eyes closed, I could

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see light from the lamp through my eyelids. Then a

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dark shadow started swaying side to side in front of

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a light, like a hand waving over my face. I

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opened my eyes quickly to see who it was, but

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there was nothing but the ceiling above me. I was

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a little spook, but it was late and I knew

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my tired mind could have been playing tricks on me.

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So I rolled onto my stomach, and after a long while,

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I must have fallen asleep. In the morning, my girlfriend

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and I wo up to the sound of my alarm.

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We said goodbye to our buddies and we headed back home.

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But on our drive back I told her what happened.

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She froze. She said she felt like something was watching

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her the entire night. At one point she saw a

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shadow too, like a human head, staring over the couch

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at her, and it was swaying back and forth. We

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were both shocked and disturbed, and later on I asked

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my friend if it had been him playing a trick

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on us. He responded with a hard no. I like

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to think there's a rational explanation for what we saw,

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but I can't figure out what it could be. My

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friend has a small husky that has been kindled every

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night in the room we were sleeping in, but I

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think i'd have heard it if she undid the lock

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by herself and stuck her nose in my face. Keep

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up the good work, we like your podcast. Thanks for

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sharing my story. Well, you're welcome. That to me is terrifying.

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I can't imagine being in a strange house laying on

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a couch. You didn't actually see it, but your girlfriend did,

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and that it confirms what you kind of peripherally saw.

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That would scare the crap out of me, and I

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would be worried for the family that lives there. It

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must be some kind of entity in the house. But

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it's a great story and I certainly appreciate you sending

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it to me. Man, it was such a spooky story.

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Thank you. I've shared this with friends and authorities in

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my area and I was met with laughter or sarcasm.

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So I'm sharing with you to see if anyone has

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experienced something similar. I will start off by saying I

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live in the UK. Watching your videos, it is apparent

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that there are not a lot of bigfoot encounters from

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the UK. I'm from the West Midlands area and I

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have rarely heard of similar sightings. I work as a

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family social worker and I specialized in families who are

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homeless and have difficulties with mental health. While studying. Near

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the end of my university degree, I asked to have

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an assignment where I would live a period of eighteen

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months in homelessness in order to further my career and knowledge.

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It was during this year that I had my encounter.

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It started off with leaving technology and luxuries behind me

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and had a meeting with family and professionals. Before leaving.

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I went to the large forest area and was not

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so local to my area as it was further away

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from society. I would venture most days into a nearby

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village and look for odds and ends chores that I

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could do for people to earn some sort of scrap

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or charge of food. I tried to do the best

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that I could for what little I had. I had

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heard of some weird sightings of what was a which

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are not wild or native in the United Kingdom, or

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a community of homeless people around the forest, but nothing

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solid and I had not experienced anything myself. I managed

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to get some stuff together from the money that I

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had been given for mowing a lawn. I bought a

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large piece of tarp in some bits of what I

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assumed was a ripped gazebo and had fashioned this into

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a makeshift tent. I made a shower out of a

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bucket with holes that I poked in the bottom. It

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had been a few months of living in the forest

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and I was going through a normal day to day

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routine of fetching water from a nearby brook and hanging

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it in a tree to shower, and then I noticed

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a dead badger. The body was fresh and clean and

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it had no wounds, so I took the opportunity to

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take it back to my tent and prepare it for

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a meal. Badgers have been known to be vicious and aggressive,

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but this is the first of any badgers that I

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had had ever seen. After a few days, I noticed

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something else weird. While I was walking to the brook.

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There was a rabbit carcass in some apples from what

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looked like to be from an apple tree not far

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from my tent. They weren't very nice though. The weird

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thing was this happened for a few weeks, and the

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food or the animals were always in the same spot,

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around twenty feet from my camp. A few weeks passed

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and I began to feel that this was rather odd,

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and I was unsure if I was being watched. I

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made my way to the brook to collect some water

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and get ready to make my way to the village.

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I walked out past the spot where I had usually

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found these items, and there was nothing there. So I

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moved on and thought nothing of it. I could hear

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the wildlife around me and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

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I hoisted the bucket of water onto my shoulder and

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I walked back to the tent. I was approaching the

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small clearing where my camp was when I I noticed it.

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There was a large figure crouched near a small tree

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a little ways past my destination. I'm six foot tall

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and I weighed sixteen stone, and I could see this

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thing was just going to be a towering mass over me.

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I tried not to acknowledge it and ignore it as

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I carried on doing my business. I left the bucket

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of water by the fire to warm up while I

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prepared some food. It wasn't much, but it was what

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I had left over from some fish and bread, and

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I had a few carrots. I noticed the being standing

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up straight and slowly take a few steps toward me.

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As big as this thing was, I did not feel

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a threat at all. It looked like a bigfoot, but

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not one that I had heard described before. It had

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hair covering most of its body, but was rather thin

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around its arms. Its chest was bare, and its face

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was clear. It had brown hair, small gray patches scattered

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all over its body. It was holding what looked like

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a bunch of blackberries and some wild garlic. Not a

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normal lunch that I would have, but I'm not going

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to argue with a big foot. It took around forty

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minutes of me dosing around the camp for this thing

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to get within a couple of yards of me. It

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placed the food on the ground and it stepped back.

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I had no idea what to do. I sat down

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on the camp chair and I began to eat. I

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picked up the berries in the garlic and I put

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them in my lap. I ripped the garlic leaves into

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shreds and put them in my fish sandwich. It was

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then I decided to gesture to the creature to take

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a sandwich as a thanks for bringing me some food.

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It came over to me and it slowly reached out

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with its huge hand. It looked like it was missing

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the tip of its index finger. As it took it

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out of my hand, it let out a sharp, but

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pieful grunt, and then it quickly walked away. After about

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ten feet it stopped and it sat down on an

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old rotten log and it ate the sandwich. I've got

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to be honest. When it came over to me, I

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have never been more terrified in my life. But it

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remained calm and gentle the whole time. During this little

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session of what seemed like forever, I had a closer

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look at it. Its hair or its fur, was brown,

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with a large black patch covering its back and gray

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speckle patches all over. It was muscular and had an

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odd but not two potents smell. Its face was almost

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Neanderthal looking, but with some ape like features. It had

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a protruding bottom lip, and as it opened its mouth

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to take a bite, I could see very pronounced canine teeth.

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Its ears were large but almost flushed to its head.

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And this animal must have been eight foot tall and

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weighed almost double what I weighed. It was incredible. I

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now assumed that it was a male after watching your videos,

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and I've heard people describe what we're breast on female bigfoots,

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and I thought to myself, I can't believe that I'm seeing.

481
00:28:16,279 --> 00:28:19,079
I think this is a bigfoot man. I did not

482
00:28:19,319 --> 00:28:23,240
know what to do. Its arms and hands were covered

483
00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:26,880
in small scars and scratches which looked like cat or

484
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,680
dog marks, but I wasn't sure. After it finished the food,

485
00:28:31,839 --> 00:28:34,079
it stared at me for a while, and then it

486
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,480
stood up. I carried on what I was doing, and

487
00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:40,039
I hung the bucket of warm water in the tree,

488
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,680
and I got ready to shower. As I looked around

489
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,680
over my shoulder, the creature had gone. This was the

490
00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:51,319
last time that I saw it. I carried on living

491
00:28:51,359 --> 00:28:54,759
homeless for the remainder of that eighteen months and didn't

492
00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:58,480
come across the creature again. I didn't feel scared or

493
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:00,960
worried or threatened. In fact, it gave me a sense

494
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,599
of safety. It left me food every so often in

495
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,160
the spot, and I in return left a sandwich, sometimes

496
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,759
made with some of the things that left me, just

497
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:16,720
to show my appreciation. A few months had passed and

498
00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:19,839
I still hadn't seen the animal again in the flesh,

499
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,720
but it felt it around me. I had at this

500
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,960
point planted some potatoes in a patch nearby, and today

501
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,920
was a day that I would harvest them. I was

502
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,920
rummaging through the ground digging up the potatoes when I

503
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,559
heard a grunt. I looked up and I saw a bore.

504
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,160
Boar are known in the local area and wildernesses, and

505
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,920
they're not friendly. This thing grunted and scraped its hoof

506
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,079
against the ground very aggressively. I grabbed the trowel next

507
00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:51,640
to me, even though this boar wouldn't even feel it

508
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,839
if I poked it, and it charged me. And then

509
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,599
the worst happened. It lowered its head and it charged.

510
00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:03,119
My heart stopped and I lost my breath as a loud, deep,

511
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,240
howling roar echoed from a distance. It was so deep

512
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:13,039
the echo reverberated off the trees. The boar suddenly skidded

513
00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:17,599
along the ground, almost falling, before squealing and then running off.

514
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,400
My body just emptied of sweat. Thankfully, this is the

515
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,400
most dangerous thing that I felt like I encountered, and

516
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,880
thank god the big guy was nearby. I've spoken to

517
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,319
people about this, and almost no one takes me seriously. However,

518
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:38,599
I know what I saw. I always use this experience

519
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,079
in my professional life by quoting there are always forces

520
00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:45,839
in the universe that will help you if you need it,

521
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,599
or even don't expect it. Just be kind to give

522
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,880
back when you can. I haven't heard anything described quite

523
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,839
like this, and was wondering if there are variations of

524
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:02,839
what we know is bigfoot that are different in different regions.

525
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,519
The encounter that was shared with me is one that

526
00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:10,160
sticks with me not only because of the experience, but

527
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,400
because of who told it to me. I've not told

528
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,440
this story very many times, but after listening to several

529
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,599
of your videos, I decided to try and share it

530
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,000
as best that I can remember it. Back in the

531
00:31:23,079 --> 00:31:26,200
late eighties and early nineties, I became very good friends

532
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,599
with a Southern Baptist preacher. He led me to the

533
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,160
Lord during this time and we became great friends. We're

534
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,240
the same age, and we both shared a love of outdoors.

535
00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:40,640
We cone hunted and we trapped, and we fished together,

536
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,359
as well as doing outreach for the church where he

537
00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:47,920
was a pastor that I attended. One October evening, he

538
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:50,359
called me after I got home from work and asked

539
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,640
me if I would drive him so that he could

540
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,920
finish preaching the last night of a revival at a

541
00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:58,200
church about an hour and a half to the west

542
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,039
of the community where we lived. He'd been fighting a

543
00:32:02,079 --> 00:32:05,680
fierce cold all week and had taken some pretty strong medication.

544
00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:08,440
He didn't want to be a hazard to himself or

545
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,119
anyone else by trying to drive. Of course I agreed

546
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,720
to take him. We only lived a few miles apart

547
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:18,240
on some back roads, and he felt he'd be okay

548
00:32:18,279 --> 00:32:21,240
to travel the short distance to my house and we

549
00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:24,759
would leave from there. We traveled to the church where

550
00:32:24,759 --> 00:32:27,640
he was preaching that night. I think between getting a

551
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,640
little something to eat on the way over, the medicine

552
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,680
he took, and God giving him the strength he went

553
00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:36,200
on to preach one of the best messages I'd ever

554
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,920
heard him preach. After the service had ended and we

555
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,400
set our goodbyes, we proceeded to travel back home. While

556
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,839
traveling back home in my truck, we talked about a

557
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:50,839
little of everything, starting out, especially about our excitement for

558
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,480
the upcoming hunting and trapping season. I've always had an

559
00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:59,319
interest in Bigfoot Encryptid type story since I was a kid.

560
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:02,680
To this day, I love to hear accounts of local

561
00:33:02,759 --> 00:33:06,960
legends and happenings that most every small community seemed to have.

562
00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:11,039
After a pause in our conversation, I had a random

563
00:33:11,079 --> 00:33:13,920
thought about a story that I heard as a kid.

564
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:19,079
It's a well known and documented story about the infield horror.

565
00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:23,039
The story made local and national news at the time

566
00:33:23,079 --> 00:33:26,319
it was happening in the early seventies. I won't go

567
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,359
into detail about it here. There are plenty of stories

568
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,680
online about this. I wanted to ask my pastor friend

569
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,119
about it because he grew up not far from where

570
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,480
all this occurred. I brought it up in a half

571
00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:42,279
joking manner. He laughed and said that it was a

572
00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:45,599
crazy time with the stories of sightings of the monster.

573
00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:49,200
He also commented that it was a dangerous time as

574
00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:53,599
well because of the truckloads of monster hunters riding around

575
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,640
with firearms. Still half joking, I asked him if he

576
00:33:57,759 --> 00:34:00,279
believed that there was anything to it, or was it

577
00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:04,720
on the overdone side. My friend got real quiet and

578
00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:08,239
reflective for a moment. He said, I don't know about

579
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,239
all the sightings that were going on in the early seventies,

580
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,960
but I had something happen to me one night while

581
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,760
I was coon hunting that still gives me the chills

582
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,880
when I think about it. I could tell by the

583
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,280
look on his face and the tone of his voice

584
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,960
that he was being dead serious. I knew this was

585
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,679
coming from a good man of God who'd always been

586
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,159
leveled straight and never lied to me. So this is

587
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,159
the story that he told me. One night when he

588
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,679
was a senior in high school. He got home from

589
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,760
a date about eleven pm or so on a Friday

590
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:46,000
night in mid November. He said it was coon season,

591
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,000
so he thought he'd changed clothes and load the dogs

592
00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:50,960
up and go see if he could tree a coon.

593
00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:54,599
Yet that night, the area that he was gonna hunt

594
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,159
was on the backside of a state park where his

595
00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:01,960
family had ground that they farmed. Most parks and recreation

596
00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:06,599
areas have fire roads through them. These roads allow access

597
00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:10,159
for emergency vehicles in case of fires, and they are

598
00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:13,559
also used by farmers for access to their fields for

599
00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:18,400
spring planting and fall harvesting. It was here on this

600
00:35:18,519 --> 00:35:21,519
fire road my friend and his two eager hounds began

601
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:25,159
their late night cone hunt. After parking the truck and

602
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,000
turning the dogs loose, my friend said that he walked

603
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,400
about one hundred to one hundred and twenty five yards

604
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,239
down the fire road with the dogs out in front

605
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,360
of him, aways with the woods of the state park

606
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,440
on his left and a broken wide fence road that

607
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:43,559
bordered the agricultural fields on his right, he decided to

608
00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:47,199
stop and wait to listen for his dogs, so he

609
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,119
turned off his night light and stood in the quiet

610
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,320
waiting for his hounds to strike a trail. He had

611
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,239
been waiting for about ten minutes when he heard something

612
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,599
running in the woods on his left. He turned his

613
00:36:00,679 --> 00:36:03,760
headlamp on to see the eyes of his dogs reflecting

614
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,880
back at him as they came running out of the

615
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,360
woods and back on to the fire road. They were

616
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,360
running like their tails had caught fire, and they skidded

617
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,320
to a halt, almost tripping him up in the process.

618
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,920
He was annoyed at both of them, but realized that

619
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,119
they were both trembling with fear, and they kept looking

620
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:26,599
back where they'd run from while seeking reassurance from him.

621
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,320
After about fifteen seconds or so after his dogs returned,

622
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,920
he smelled the most putrid smell he thought he'd ever

623
00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:39,400
smelled in his life. He described it as rotting eggs

624
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,119
with a stagnant, strong, musty damp odor. It made his

625
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,159
gut wrench, he said. While trying to calm his dogs down,

626
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:52,800
he heard heavy footfall coming from the broken fence row

627
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,119
side of the fire road. Now I'm an outdoorsman too,

628
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,920
and I can relate to what he said. Next, he said,

629
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,480
those footsteps I heard were not a deer or somebody's

630
00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:07,800
cow that was loose. They were too loud to belong

631
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,519
to a smaller four legged animal. Whatever was making that

632
00:37:11,679 --> 00:37:15,360
noise was big, and it was on two legs of that,

633
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,719
I have no doubt. He was scared and yet a

634
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,039
little angry because he thought maybe somebody was sneaking up

635
00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:25,559
on him at night to scare him as a joke

636
00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:29,480
while he was hunting by himself. He called out a

637
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,440
couple of times for whoever this was, to knock it off,

638
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:35,920
and to remember that he was carrying a firearm. He

639
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,280
then said the firearm comment didn't give him much confidence

640
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,119
because he was only carrying a twenty two rifle. There

641
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:47,280
was no response, just the continued heavy footfalls, which had

642
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,360
closed to within about thirty yards of his position. He said.

643
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,280
He turned his headlamp on too full beam and shine

644
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,280
the fence row side of the road, looking for whatever

645
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,760
was making the sounds that he was hearing. He said

646
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,360
he saw nothing, but he noticed the footsteps stopped after

647
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:09,119
he started scanning his light. After not seeing anything, the

648
00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:12,000
flight response took over and he just wanted to get

649
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:14,480
back to his truck and be away from whatever was

650
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:18,519
happening as fast as he could. By now he was

651
00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:21,719
shaking with as much fear as the dogs were, and

652
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,480
from the looks they gave him as he was snapping

653
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,360
the leashes on their collars, it was like, we're ready

654
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,800
to ski daddle too. He retreated towards the direction of

655
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,840
his truck at a fast walk, knowing they had some

656
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,360
one hundred and twenty five yards or so to cover.

657
00:38:38,159 --> 00:38:40,760
He stopped dead still, and he listened to hear those

658
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,400
same heavy footsteps stop a couple of seconds after his

659
00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:47,679
dead so he knew he was being shadowed from the

660
00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:50,599
fence row side. On his trip back to the truck,

661
00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:55,880
the futrid smell increased and decreased, but was always present

662
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,679
on his retreat. Finally, when he and the dogs were

663
00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:02,199
with an about thirty yards of his truck, they broke

664
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,800
into a full run to cover the last distance. The

665
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,599
dogs were still trembling so bad he had to lift

666
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:11,079
each one of them to the tailgate so they could

667
00:39:11,119 --> 00:39:13,760
get back in the dog box for the ride home.

668
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,159
After loading the dogs, he was still trembling so bad

669
00:39:18,519 --> 00:39:21,400
that he dropped his keys once while trying to unlock

670
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,760
the truck door, but once he did everything, went flying

671
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,760
to the far side of the truck cab. In a

672
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,360
rush to go. He slung grass and dirt with the

673
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,199
tires until he hit the gravel road to head home.

674
00:39:33,639 --> 00:39:36,719
Pausing for a minute after he finished his story, he said,

675
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,840
now take your fingers and touch my forearm. I gave

676
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,159
him a strange look. I didn't know what he was

677
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:46,639
talking about. Just do it, he said. I ran my

678
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,639
hand across his forearm, and I realized then why he

679
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,440
wanted me to do that. Goosebumps covered him from shoulder

680
00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:57,400
to fingertip. That happens to me every time I tell

681
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,639
that story with this much detail, he said. My friend

682
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,719
did not actually see anything. He only heard and smelled it.

683
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,920
He doesn't know for sure what it was, but something

684
00:40:09,079 --> 00:40:13,960
that was very scary happened to him on that coonot, Hey,

685
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,039
thank you for listening to this podcast. I certainly appreciate you.

686
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,159
If you could leave a review on whatever podcast app

687
00:40:20,199 --> 00:40:23,639
you're using, that would be a tremendous help to this podcast.

688
00:40:24,159 --> 00:40:26,679
I know you probably get sick of hearing creators say

689
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:29,280
that kind of thing, but it really would help. And

690
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:33,280
I feel like my opportunity to expand this podcast has

691
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,039
been limited now that I'm not on YouTube. So any

692
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:39,400
kind of review you can do on Spotify or Apple

693
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:44,320
Podcasts or any podcast app that you use, spreaker, leave

694
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,840
a review, leave a comment, all of that stuff, thumbs up.

695
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,239
I don't know. I don't know what they all offer,

696
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,119
but anything you do would be a huge help. And

697
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:57,079
I plan on putting podcasts out probably two maybe three

698
00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:01,000
times a week on these platforms. I hope you enjoy it.

699
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,360
So thanks to the people who have stuck with me

700
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,239
and moved over from YouTube to this platform. You cannot

701
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,559
know how much I appreciate that. So until the next one,

702
00:41:11,679 --> 00:41:13,719
I'll see you. Hope you guys have a good week.

703
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,159
We'll see on the next one. Thanks