WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:13.279 I've lived at the foot of this mountain in southeast 2 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:17.359 Oklahoma for twenty years, and all that time I've seen 3 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:21.640 these critters twice, but I've heard them many times. They 4 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.359 howl and whoop and chatter, or they make a bird sound, 5 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:27.960 which if it were a bird, it would have to 6 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.079 be the size of a house to make a sound 7 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:34.280 that loud. They eat the pears off my trees, but 8 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:37.079 they always bring me one with no marks on it. 9 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:41.439 They leave me a perfect pair. They lay it in 10 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.359 the same spot in my driveway every time, where I 11 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:46.320 can see it from the porch when I have my 12 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.840 morning coffee, and if they're out to hurt me, they've 13 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.759 had apple opportunity to do so. The first time I 14 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:57.280 saw one was when I glanced out in my bedroom 15 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.399 window as I was walking down the hall. There it 16 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.959 was a face looking in the window. I could tell 17 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.159 it was a young one. It was gray with large eyes, 18 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.439 and when it registered what I had seen, I stepped 19 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.799 back to look again, but it was gone. The second 20 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.280 time I saw one, I was putting clothes in my 21 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.680 washing machine and I glanced out the window above the washer. 22 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.879 This one was very shiny black, and I think it 23 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.680 may have just been in the pond that's farthest away 24 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:32.000 from my home. I don't know for sure, but I 25 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:36.400 know it was not a bear. A few days later, 26 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.719 my husband and I walked out to where I saw 27 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.439 it and measured him beside a small tree that I 28 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.920 saw it walk behind the tree came to the hairy 29 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:48.680 person's waist, and when my husband walked behind that tree, 30 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.719 it was over his head. My husband is six feet tall, 31 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.680 the hairy person must have been eight or nine feet tall. 32 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:01.719 My point is they are here, and they are real. 33 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.760 There is simple proof out there. They are not a 34 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:10.400 grete eight. DNA has been tested and tested and then 35 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.800 tested some more. They do have bodies, and the question 36 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.159 we should be asking is why the government is trying 37 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:22.199 to keep them a secret from the American people. They 38 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.919 are not a joke or a sitting around the campfire 39 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.080 scary story. They are real. The DNA shows them to 40 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.759 be a human hybrid. Every American should be asking our 41 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.840 government to let people know about them. While the secrets, 42 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:42.439 is it the money or is it something else? And 43 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.319 after all these years, the government has finally come out 44 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.879 and said, yes there are UFOs. We Americans have known 45 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:55.400 that for years. We benefited from that secret? Who benefits 46 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:01.000 from this one? Voices United make a mighty roar, and 47 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.280 that's the end of our email. And I agree. If 48 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.840 these things are real, it's and the government knows about it, 49 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:10.800 and they have bodies and there's been DNA testing that 50 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.840 shows they are a human hybrid, then you know, why 51 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:20.840 not just make it clear? I don't. That subject is 52 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.039 so deep. I just can't I can't even begin to 53 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.560 think about it because I don't know. I'm just busy. 54 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.080 People with less busy minds can probably think about that 55 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:33.560 and maybe come up with some theories. And all they 56 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.960 are is theories. All we have is ideas. Unless the 57 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.879 government comes out or some school or college or whoever 58 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:48.199 would be a reputable give a reputable representation of the species. 59 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:52.800 Until they come out and actually show the evidence a body, 60 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.599 then we're just never going to know. We're not going 61 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.280 to know. But this was interesting. I like that there's 62 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.879 two stories in a row where there's gifting going on. 63 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.039 I don't think she's gifting them, but they're leaving her 64 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:08.479 a pair in her driveway. That's pretty cool. Thank you 65 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:14.039 man for the story. I really appreciate it. As a 66 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:17.199 nine year old in the nineteen eighties. I spent most of, 67 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.759 if not all, of my time in the woods. From 68 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.279 the time I could crawl. My mom sent me outside 69 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:28.000 to play with our Rhodesian ridgeback bullet. Somewhere in the 70 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.040 rubber maid container full of photographs is a picture of 71 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.040 me and a diaper propped up against a bullet under 72 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.720 our house with a bottle I lived outside. The first 73 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:41.120 day of the first grade, I was already deep in 74 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:43.439 the swamp when I heard my mom yelling from the 75 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.000 porch to come home and eat breakfast and get ready 76 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:50.279 for school. School hadn't even thought about it until that moment. 77 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.319 My life to that point had been a blur of camo, 78 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.879 my Swiss army knife buttoned into a leather sheath on 79 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.639 my hip, a machetty, my dog, and the twenty thousand 80 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:06.000 acres of wildlife preserved behind our little patch of swamp 81 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.079 in Christmas, Florida. At that time, the little town of 82 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.879 Christmas was composed solely of a post office, a church, 83 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.959 and a thirty foot Christmas tree that was lit year 84 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.000 round off the side of Highway fifty seven in the 85 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:24.160 middle of nowhere. Nowhere was just how I liked it. 86 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.399 I fished and trapped and built every kind of fort 87 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.600 imaginable among the pal meadows and the cypress of those swamps. 88 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.040 When I was nine, my dad helped me build a 89 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:39.279 little hut with a thatched roof made from palmeadows. It 90 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.160 was long and narrow, and the perfect size to hang 91 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.160 my hammock. Despite having spent so much of my life 92 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.639 in the woods until then, I had never spent a 93 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.439 night alone out there. With my new hut, I decided 94 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.920 that this was the time to attempt my first solo 95 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.360 camping trip. I had to prove it to myself and 96 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.000 my dad that I was a woodsman that I claimed 97 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:05.560 to be. Later that day, with my machete in hand, 98 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.199 I hacked my way the quarter of a mile or 99 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.839 so into the swamp behind our house to my hut. 100 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.800 As the sun's lash rays began to fade and darkness 101 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.720 swallowed the air around me, I struck my lighter to 102 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.680 start a fire, and I was looking forward to the 103 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.519 eggs and sausage that I was planning to cook for dinner. 104 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.800 The same instant the flame sprung from my lighter, a 105 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:32.120 scream erupted from the swamp not thirty feet into the 106 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.879 darkness behind me. It was a kind of blood curling, 107 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:41.120 freezer muscle scream that send your mind racing. It sounded 108 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.519 like a woman was being stabbed to death in the 109 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:47.040 palmetto patch, and I strained to see something, but the 110 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.079 night was already so thick that I couldn't see. I 111 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.600 sat frozen in terror, and a few seconds later the 112 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.399 sound of the scream had faded, and I was relieved 113 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:02.040 to find my heart had an actually explode. It felt 114 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.879 like an eternity as I struggled to comprehend what I 115 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:07.759 had just heard. Who would be all the way back 116 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.399 here in the dark. If they were here, they were trespassing. 117 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.199 Could it have been a poacher? Why were they murdering 118 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:20.079 a woman? Who was she? Was I next? In reality? 119 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.120 All of these thoughts flashed through my mind in less 120 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.639 than a second. My heart had just begun to slow 121 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.560 its relentless effort to escape my rib cage when a 122 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:33.399 roar that shook my insides exploded from the same patch 123 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:37.399 of pal meadows behind me. It was followed by another screen. 124 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:42.120 A lion was now eating the woman. But no, lions 125 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.680 didn't live here, I thought, the urge to mess my pants. 126 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:52.240 There was no conscious decision between flight or fight. There 127 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.680 wasn't time. I was already flying down the path towards 128 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.560 the house. Later, all that I would remember of my 129 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.600 escape was passing the pond that marked the halfway point 130 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.639 back to the house, and the next thing I knew, 131 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:08.120 I was beating at the French doors on the back 132 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.079 porch with all my strength. My Dad had been in 133 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.160 his room reading when he heard my pleading and relentless 134 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:18.600 assault on the glass panels. Open the door. It's me, 135 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.560 I screamed. There's a guy in the woods with a knife. 136 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.040 He's killing her. That was all I could think to say. 137 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.000 Dad rushed to the door and opened it and asked, 138 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.759 what in the world was wrong with me now? I 139 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.399 explained that I had just heard a woman being murdered, 140 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.399 and then lions roaring. Well. Then he started to laugh, 141 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:42.559 and I wasn't amused. Your hair is standing straight up, 142 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.080 he said. I didn't give a right speckle backside what 143 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.080 my hair was doing. A woman was being murdered. She 144 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.480 was being stabbed to death and eaten or whatever, right 145 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.960 in our backyard. It was probably a cougar, he explained, 146 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:01.279 They sometimes do that. I decided that I'd had enough 147 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.320 for one night. I'd have to attempt a solo camp 148 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.320 some other time when I was sure no women, bears, lions, 149 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.320 or cougars or axe murderers were out and about in 150 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.759 the dark. I've spent plenty of nights in the woods 151 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.440 since then, both alone and with others, but I've never 152 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:21.840 again heard anything like that. I was only nine at 153 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.879 the time, but I'm pretty sure I broke speed records 154 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.279 that night, and I don't think my feet ever touched 155 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:32.879 the ground. Whoa man, What a story These stories with 156 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.399 the children. You know, when these people are small and 157 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.759 they have these encounters, we listened to them, and we're 158 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:41.519 kind of entertained by these stories. I mean, really, we 159 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.320 are entertained by these stories. But if you put yourself 160 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:48.279 in their shoes, oh my gosh, you know, it's just 161 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.600 got to be terrifying. It would have been for me 162 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:53.440 at nine years old. I know that. And there were 163 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:55.879 things that scared me at nine, nothing like a bigfoot 164 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.519 or anything like that. But you know, you're very impressionable. 165 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.960 Fear level is like off the charts when something scares you. 166 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.159 And so that's why I kind of, I don't know, 167 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:10.919 I kind of identify with these stories. People reminisce about 168 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.600 their childhood and these weird things that happen. But Matt, 169 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.679 this was a great story and I really appreciate you 170 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.519 sending it. I'm gonna look up on the map where Christmas, 171 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.559 Florida is. I've never heard of it. Well, I'm just 172 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.000 gonna look it up and figure out where it is. 173 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.039 Maybe time next time i'm down there, I'm gonna go 174 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:30.840 look at that Christmas tree. I live on Fort Hill 175 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.519 overlooking Charleston, West Virginia. Over the last thirty five years, 176 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:40.399 I've heard bigfoot screams many times. On cold winter nights. 177 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.360 The dogs up on this hill will start barking until 178 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:47.600 a terrible scream echoes down across the valley and silences them. 179 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:52.120 I've heard tree knocks up here, screaming as if a 180 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:55.879 woman is being murdered in whoops, and jabbering like humans 181 00:10:55.919 --> 00:11:00.320 talking but not human. This seems to happen most often 182 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.279 around the fourth of July. I guess that's because of 183 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:06.519 all the fireworks disturbing the creatures deep in the woods. 184 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:12.679 I've heard these same sounds on the Internet, listed under sysquatch, sabe, 185 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:17.360 and Bigfoot. In twenty eighteen, mold A Sun and a 186 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.840 few of his friends were shooting off fireworks in a 187 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:22.720 parking lot in a neighboring town not too far from 188 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.799 our home. When they got there around ten pm, they 189 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:29.039 decided to walk to the top of the hill, where 190 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.919 there was a water reservoir. They reasoned that they'd be 191 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.080 far away from any homes at the top of that 192 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.600 hill and they could shoot the fireworks high into the 193 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:41.759 air there. Besides, if anything went wrong, they figured they 194 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.120 had an immediate water source. They walked up this hill 195 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.440 through the dark woods with only their flashlight to guide them. 196 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:52.840 It had rained that afternoon and a low fog was 197 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.759 hanging in the air. The path was paved with asphalt 198 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.799 with gravel on both sides. The boys took turns carrying 199 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.519 the box while the girls were busy walking and talking 200 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.919 in the front. There's a fork in the path halfway 201 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.000 up that hill, and one fork leads straight up on 202 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.879 the hill while the other stays low and wraps around 203 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.559 the reservoir. The girls took the wrong fork. The boys 204 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:23.120 weren't paying attention as they continued down the wrong path. 205 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.000 They began to hear someone walking over in the woods, 206 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.360 and my son realized they should have reached the reservoir 207 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.600 by then, so he told the girls to stop. Don't 208 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.000 be silly. They told him we'll be there soon. They 209 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.000 pointed out that they'd stayed on the path and kept walking. 210 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:44.320 My son is a high functioning autistic. He thinks a 211 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:48.840 little bit different than others. He said, I hear somebody 212 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.679 walking behind us, walking in the gravel. Look y'all, I'm scared. 213 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.519 I want to go home. Someone in the group suggested 214 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.480 they shot off the fireworks where they were, that they'd 215 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.360 gone far, and the girls agreed. My son said, I 216 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.720 think this is a bad idea. We need to get 217 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.879 home now. The other kids laughed at him and called 218 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.600 him a scaredy cat. They pulled out one of the 219 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:17.000 coffee can sized fireworks and they lit it. It spewed 220 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.559 on for about two minutes, sparkling and lightning and popping 221 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.159 and crackling, and finally it went out and everything went 222 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.759 silent and dark, and from the woods they heard a 223 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:31.200 low growl. See. I told you he wouldn't like it. 224 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.440 My son said, it's time to go. We gotta go now. 225 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.519 The boys hurriedly picked up the box while the girls 226 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.919 were screaming. They all went running back down the hill, 227 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:45.759 leaving my son behind in the dark, and he heard 228 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:50.559 the growl again. I'm sorry, mister, he said, it was 229 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.639 their idea to set it off in your house. Now, 230 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:55.799 I'm going to start walking and I'm going to leave 231 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.120 your house now, and I'm sorry for disturbing you. I'm 232 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:02.159 going to go now. I did not mean to dishonor you, 233 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:08.080 and the growling stopped. My grandfather told me about the 234 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:10.159 old Man of the Mountain when I was just a 235 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.600 little girl. He taught me about the old ways and 236 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.720 what to do when being confronted by a sisquatch. Don't 237 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:22.159 make eye contact and speak loudly, but be non confrontational. 238 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:27.000 Be respectful, but don't show fear, and do not run 239 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:33.480 no matter what. That's exactly what my son did. He 240 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.840 told me that the sisquatch followed him down the mountain, 241 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:40.639 keeping about ten feet back. He could hear it walking 242 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:43.759 in the gravel. He used to cell phone to light 243 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.919 his way, but he never looked aback, and when he 244 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.159 got to the car, the others were yelling for him 245 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.799 to hurry. It's right behind you, they said, But my 246 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.440 son continued his slow, steady pace to the car, and 247 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:00.679 he never once looked aback. He got into the car, 248 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.399 and as they sped out of the parking lot, he 249 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.879 caught sight of it in the headlights. It was standing 250 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.519 at the edge of the path swaying back and forth. 251 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.440 He said it was nine feet tall, and it was 252 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.759 covered in black hair, and its arms were longer than 253 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:20.720 a human, and it had green eyeshine. When the other 254 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.200 kids dropped my son off, they were all nervous. The 255 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.440 girls were crying. They were all talking over each other, 256 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.240 trying to tell me what happened, But my son was 257 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:34.399 calm and sober, like a priest. I sent the other 258 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.120 kids home and I had my son recount a story, 259 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.399 and I believe every word of it. Oh wow, what 260 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:44.399 a great story. An autistic kid caught out in the 261 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:48.080 woods shooting fireworks by a bigfoot. He sure did a 262 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.399 good job getting out of there by not running and 263 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:54.679 not being confrontational. That's I guess that's the way he 264 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.039 made it out. Who knows if this thing would have 265 00:15:57.080 --> 00:16:00.240 hurt him otherwise, but it was just escorting him out. 266 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:06.440 What a great story. Okay, this is a short This 267 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.200 is a little short story that I've had for a 268 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.799 little while, and it's not real scary or anything, and 269 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.480 it's not a bigfoot story, but it's very heartwarming. The 270 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:19.919 writer's name is Missy. She writes, I heard you reading 271 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.559 a ghost story. Now, I haven't seen a bigfoot, but 272 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.360 I have seen a ghost on more than one occasion. 273 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.399 Most are just a fleeting moment of a stranger, but 274 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.399 this one was special. My husband was in the Marine 275 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.200 Corps and we were stationed in Yuma, Arizona. We were 276 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.159 living on the base in base housing in Yuma. We're 277 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:43.879 from the same little town in Alabama, not too far 278 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:47.879 from Mississippi. At the time, I was twenty six weeks 279 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.559 pregnant and did not know it yet, but things were 280 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.879 about to get scary. I woke up in the middle 281 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.440 of the night to see my mama and two people 282 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.120 that I didn't know. I think they were her parents. 283 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.200 They died before I was born, so I only have 284 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.319 seen old black and white pictures. They all looked concerned. 285 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.640 I was startled but excited to see her. She had 286 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:16.400 passed away just under two years before then. They disappeared 287 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:18.799 in just a few seconds. Now. I got up and 288 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.160 went down the hall, but they were gone. What I 289 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.119 didn't know was at twenty seven weeks, I would be 290 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:33.319 hospitalized for pre eclampsia, eclampsia, eclampsia, I'm not sure what 291 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.000 that is. I would go home after a couple of 292 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.599 days on bed rest. However, on my next check up 293 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.279 at twenty nine weeks, my blood pressure was out of 294 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.839 the roof, so I was taken to the hospital. I 295 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:49.799 was about to go full eclamtic and be air ambulance 296 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:54.440 to Phoenix. My son was delivered by cesarean section and 297 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:58.359 was in NICU for three months until his due date. 298 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.799 He was born one pound in twelve ounces, and if 299 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.519 not for the grace of God and the good care 300 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:10.559 at Good sam and Phoenix Children's Hospital, we would have died. 301 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.279 I think Mama was either there just worried or preparing 302 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.680 to take us home. My son was lucky and he 303 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:21.640 never had to go back into the hospital. A lot 304 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:25.000 of premies do have to revisit a bit. But he's 305 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.559 now five foot ten and he's a radiology He is 306 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:33.680 a radiology technologist, and she writes, that's a fancy name 307 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.200 for the person that takes your X ray in the hospital. 308 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:39.480 We're blessed to still be here on this big blue 309 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.680 ball and to have family no matter where they may be. 310 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:46.880 Thanks for working so hard doing these stories. You can 311 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:52.400 use my nickname Missy. What a great story. One pound 312 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:58.160 twelve ounces. Just think about that, these babies. He was 313 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:02.039 twenty nine weeks think it was twenty nine. He was 314 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:08.279 born by caesarean, weighing one pound twelve ounces. I don't know. 315 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:11.799 There's a lot of argument going on about if these 316 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.960 fetuses or people or humans or not, you know, the 317 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.000 whole debate. And this is one of the things that 318 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:21.079 always really makes me wonder if a baby can be 319 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.440 born at one pound twelve ounces and grow up be 320 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:28.839 a five foot ten radiology technologist, which again is a 321 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.599 fancy name for a person that takes your extra at 322 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.720 the hospital. It's pretty compelling, pretty compelling. Save those babies.