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Speaker 1: Growing up, I lived in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee.

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In the center of our neighborhood was a large outcropping

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of woods, which was about three hundred and fifty acres total.

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On one side of the woods was a small bed

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of farm land. Bordering on the other sides were neighborhoods

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in the highways. The woods were made up of two

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large hills with a stream intersecting them. At the peaks

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of both hills were two houses and a long strip

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of driveway joining the houses and providing a route out

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of the woods. All in all, it was a decent

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sized portion of wilderness with the various connecting sections that

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eventually led to the Cumberland Plateau. It's not the typical

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place you'd imagine having Bigfoot experience, given that it isn't

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rural and there are so many houses, but that's what

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I believe happened. I can't say with absolute certainty, but

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these combined experiences were definitely out of the ordinary. They

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turned me from someone who did not care about or

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believe in Bigfoot into someone who was utterly fascinated by

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the subject. My first experience was on a chilly, overcast

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fall day when I was ten years old. My dad

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and I were having a lazy Sunday watching football when

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we got a little bit bored and decided to take

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a hike in the woods. We made our way through

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the forest, taking time to appreciate this small patch of

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isolation in an otherwise urban area. The woods were quiet

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and early absent of wildlife. Everywhere, other than an isolated

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chirt from a bird or limbs breaking below our feet,

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there was silence all around us. As we traversed deeper,

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we started to lose our bearings until we ultimately came

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upon the aforementioned stream. We decided to follow it. As

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we crested the land where it divided, we encountered that

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section of driveway that I mentioned earlier. We then decided

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we would simply follow the driveway down to whichever street

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it led to. We didn't want to trespass on someone

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else's land. We continued our hike down the hill, taking

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no notice of our surroundings, talking and simply trying to

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make our way back. Suddenly, however, from the corner of

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my right eye, I saw something that looked out of place.

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From far away, it looked like debris, but being the

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curious kid, I was an aged closer for a better look.

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When I arrived within about ten feet or so of

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this mystery item, I realized what it was. It was

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a dead deer. This isn't something out of the ordinary

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in the woods, far from it. But what was strange

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was the manner in which the body was left. All

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the legs had been pulled off, yet its head was intact. Additionally,

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it was a fresh kill, and all of its ribs

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appeared to have been pulled back, exposing an empty abdomen.

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I thought nothing of it other than, oh, that's kind

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of weird. But before I could truly process everything, my dad,

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who was a short way behind me, firmly told me

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to turn back and that we were leaving well. I

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went along my merry way and did as he said,

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not giving it another thought. I don't recall having any

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sort of fear or sense that something was out of

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the norm, but as my dad would later tell me,

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he actually felt that we were in danger. We made

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our way down the hill and back to a road

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which took us home. We didn't speak of the incident further,

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for whatever reason. It wasn't until years later that my

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dad told me the hairs on the back of his

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neck stood up, and something within him simply told him

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the situation was not right. That day, while we have

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no proof this was done by Bigfoot, the strange way

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in which the deer was left in the feeling my

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dad had of being watched gave me the impression that

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something strange had occurred. Six years later, my dad and

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I were taking a walk around the block on a

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frigid February night. As I mentioned earlier, the woods are

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in the center of our neighborhood and in close enough

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proximity that whatever is occurring can normally be heard if

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you were outside. It's common to hear coyotes and birds

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and the typical noises that occur in nature. Yet on

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this night, what we heard was very, very strange. As

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he and I rounded the corner of one of the

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roads in our neighborhood, we heard a loud howl which

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seemed to reverberate throughout the night for an unnaturally long

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period of time. It began loudly and increased in pitch

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before if we're finally fading away after eight or so seconds.

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It left both of us utterly dumbfounded and amazed. My Dad,

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being a believer in bigfoot, looked at me with surprised

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white eyes, and I was equally caught off guard and

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asked him what we had just heard. He told me

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he didn't know, but I'm quite sure he and I

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both knew what it was. With all that said, we

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are not avid out dorsemen or hunters, and it's possible

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all this can be chalked up to misidentification. Yet with

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the limited amount of known fauna in the middle of Tennessee,

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it's hard for me to imagine we were simply misidentifying

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the sound. It was extremely human like, yet it was

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also a sound outside of what is possible for a human.

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As contradictory as this may sound, that's the best way

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I can describe it. It was an animalistic, powerful, semi

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human sound. It sounded very similar to the audio from

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the Ohio Howes video on YouTube, which is a long,

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almost siren like whale that sounds like it's coming from

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a large, powerful animal. Whatever the noise was, it stunned us.

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We stood there, dumbfound to trying to comprehend what we'd

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just heard. We continued to stand there, frozen in our

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tracks and waiting to hear the noise again, if for

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no other reason than the hope that we weren't imagining

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it the first time and we were not crazy. But

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we didn't hear it again. We just heard the quiet

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of the night. And despite how amazed we both were,

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it also began to sink in that this experience would

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be shared by us alone. No one else would believe

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what happened, no matter how certain we both were. And

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to be honest, I don't blame them. If bigfoot even exists,

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why would there be one in a residential area in

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the outskirts of a large city. It's a valid question,

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But my dad and I both know what we heard

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and saw. These combined experiences have forever made me someone

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who questions the natural world and wonders what all is

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truly out there? And that's the end, And I you

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know his last paragraph. These stories make me question what

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are the wonders that are truly out there? You guys

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are so nice to send these to me, and I

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don't just look at them as material to read on

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a YouTube channel. These stories fascinate me. You know, in

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this culture, people don't people don't write. People just don't write.

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I mean they'll write emails, and they'll write text. They're

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actually writing all the time. But to sit down and

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actually put together a cogent, organized recurrence or account or

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a remembrance of an event, it's really uncanny. And I've

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thought about this for the three years I've been doing

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this channel. I just don't think people just do that

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just for kicks. Maybe some do, And I've said before

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I have a feeling I get trolled on this with

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fake stories sometimes, but there's no way for me to know.

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I don't put them to any test, and I don't

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now all the crazy Bigfoot people will come in and going, well,

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it's all fiction, blah blah blah. Give me a story.

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Just find me one story that you can verify, you

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can verify without any question, and I'll believe you. The

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only Bigfoot story that I know that we can verify

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without question is the Patterson Gimblin story, Bob Gimlin's story.

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I've heard it several times, what a great guy Bob

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Gimmlin is. And I'm talking about the Bob Gimlin who

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was with Roger Patterson when they filmed Patty. Not only

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is he just a nice guy, but he was a

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raw high dude when he was younger, and those guys

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weren't scared to anything. But to me, that's the only

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that's the only verifiable story that I have ever seen

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with without question, I believe the Patterson Gimlin story. I

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absolutely believe it. All these other stories that people send

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me in that other people have put out, uh, you know,

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to the masses, there probably are some that can be verified,

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but I can't find them. I can't. You have to

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be able to back them up. But back to my point,

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these stories, whether true or not, they're fascinating. I mean,

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they're just unbelievable. You guys asked me to keep commenting

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after these stories, and I never planned not to do that.

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I just was kind of y'all got to give me

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some room to kind of poke at these people that

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jab at me. I don't ever pick a fight. I

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never never pick a fight with anybody. I don't argue

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with people about religion or politics, or wearing a mask

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or not wearing a mask, or getting vaccinated or not.

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I don't need to impose my beliefs on you in

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a way that is going to make you feel uncomfortable,

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mainly because there's nothing I'm gonna say, this's gonna change

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your mind. It's just like this. These people who are

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freaks on bigfoot, they comment on this channel all that

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stories bes well, how do you know what stories are? Bs? Really?

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You know this guy, you know the writer, you know

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the person who wrote this, how do you know? But

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they just have to say something. They're the kind of

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people who have to just force their beliefs and their

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opinions on you. And they feel like if they don't

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they I don't know what it is. They feel like

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something's missing in their life or something. You guys ask

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me to comment on these stories, So there you go.

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But let me every once in a while pick at

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these jerks who comment on this channel. Let me have

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a little fun with them. And that's all I want

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to do. That's all that is. And I had never

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planned on not commenting on this. So my friends and

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I are all avid out doorsmen. Between the four of us,

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we account for one hundred and thirty years or more

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of experience in the woods. We're from Ohio. But on

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the occasion I'm about to relate, we were hunting wild

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boar outside of Dunellen, Florida, near the Okalla National Forest.

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We arrived at our camp site and set up early

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in order to make our way into the woods before dark.

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I was deepest into the woods with my three buddies

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spread out and situated in various locations between me and

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our camp. As I sat there waiting for that time

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to pass, during which the daytime animals settled in for

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the night and the nocturnal animals woke up and came

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to life, the woods were split by the sound of

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a blood curdling scream. It came from somewhere over by

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the stand of one of my buddies, but it definitely

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wasn't him, It wasn't human. It all frozen by the

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shock and fear triggered by this ungodly sound, I sat

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still and listened intently for closed as to what this

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thing was. A short three minutes that felt more like

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a few long centuries later, the thing let out another

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whooping howl. This time it came from a place that

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seemed impossible to reach in such a short period of time.

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Assuming there was only one creature, it must have been

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incredibly fast to have reached that point so quickly. Suddenly,

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uncomfortably aware of how much further I was into the forest,

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than my friends. I was in a mental battle with

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myself as to whether I was brave enough to stay

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where I was a bit longer or high tailed out

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of there as fast as I could and risk the

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ridicule I was sure to face for being afraid of

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that terrible scream. Somehow I managed to keep myself together

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and stay in place until three am, when a low,

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guttural scream wrenched me from my stand and I went in.

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The Next morning, I discovered that the others had all

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gone in as soon as they heard the first scream.

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One of my friends has hunted for forty seven years.

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He said he'd never heard anything like it before. At

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that point, we all admitted to being afraid of whatever

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was out there, despite the screams we heard the night before,

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I decided to go back into the woods that night

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to hunt. I chose to stand a bit closer to camp,

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thinking that would alleviate my fears. Sum Right away I

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noticed how quiet the woods were. It wasn't that peaceful

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time around dusk. It was heavy silence. The crickets weren't chirping,

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and the birds weren't singing, and no squirrels were barking

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or running around. I didn't hear any of the typical

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forest animals at all. It was it's just me and

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the mosquitoes. I wasn't settled into my stand for long

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when things started being thrown at me. Each time it

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was something a little bigger, until finally a three inch

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thick by three foot long log was thrown at me

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like a javelin from a distance of eighty yards or so.

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I got the message I needed to lead. As I

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was getting my stuff together to get out of there,

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another smaller stick hit me in the head, as if

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to say stay out. We eventually learned that the gentleman

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who owns the woods won't go into them alone. Every

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other time we'd made the trip down there to hunt,

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we bagged a hog. That trip. We never saw a

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single animal, not one. That was the only time we

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ever had anything strange happen. But I'm still not taking

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any chances when I hunt that area. Like the landowner,

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I don't go in alone. I'm often ridiculed for telling

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this story. It doesn't matter to me. I don't know

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what was in those woods, but it wasn't an animal,

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and it was not a human. Oh man, that's creepy.

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That's a creepy story. I'm pretty impressed you stayed there

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till three am. I don't know how much longer that

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was from the first scream to the next one, but dude,

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if i'd heard that scream and then heard it closer

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a few minutes later, I'd have been high tailing it

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back to camp. I'm not a chicken. I'm not a chicken,

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but if I hear something like that, it's time to leave. Dude,

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You've got my admiration. You got a big set brother

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for staying in there till three am. I'd have been

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scared to death. Great story. Thank you to the writer, Brad.

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I appreciate you sending it to me. And let's move

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on to another one. My two brothers and I have

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run around the woods both day and night since we

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were kids. It's a second home to us. So in

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twenty twelve, when we decided to go fishing on the

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Little Miami River in Oregonia, Ohio, it was no big

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deal to haul our tackle for thirty minutes through a

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patch of woods, an open field, and another patch of

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woods and get to the spot we wanted to fish.

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We had a midsummer thunderstorm, earlier that day, so we

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were looking forward to a good night of fishing. We

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reached the river, got set up, and cast out our lines,

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and then we settled into eating some sandwiches my wife

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had packed for us. Everything was right with the world.

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We hadn't swallowed our first bites when a howl that

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was also a roar shattered the woods around us. We

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froze in mid bite and stared at each other in shock,

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having no idea what could have made such an awful cry.

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Before anyone could say a word, another screaming roar answered

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back from across the river, and this time it vibrated

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in my chest like I was sitting too close to

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the speakers at a rock concert. This was followed by

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the sound of something crashing through the trees, like an

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angry bull elephant on a rampage. It was getting closer

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by the second before it could burst through the brush

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at us. We each grabbed our poles without even bothering

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to reel in the lines, and we ran as fast

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as we could out of there. As we sprinted through

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the first patch of woods, the lines ran out or

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got snagged on surrounding brush, but we didn't stop. We

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just jerked on the poles, snapped the lines, and kept running.

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It took a lot less than thirty minutes to get

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back to our vehicle, and we talked about that experience

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a lot. We didn't see anything, but we all agreed

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it was either a bigfoot or a dog man. Now

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that wasn't my only experience. One early fall day, I

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decided to go hiking alone in the Narrow State Park

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in Beaver Creek, Ohio. The leaves had just started to

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change color. It was a beautiful day, but as I

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started up the trail, I noticed the utter silence around me.

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There was no noise, no movement, no sign of life

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of any kind. Not even an ant was crawling. I

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guess you could say it was a dead zone. I

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was just beginning to adjust to this oddity when I

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got the uncomfortable feeling that I was being watched. I

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looked all around me, but I didn't see anyone or

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anything for that matter. And I know this sounds crazy,

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but I was overcome with a sensation that my mind

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was being read. It was like a consciousness other than

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my own was inside my head with me. That was

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enough for me. I turned around and immediately headed back

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to my car. The feeling stayed with me until I

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pulled out of the parking lot. I've come across Bigfoot

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stories where Bigfoot used some type of telepathy or something,

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and I've heard similar accounts on Lee's Strolgy YouTube channel.

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So I suspect a Bigfoot was present that day. I

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didn't want to stay around long enough to find out.

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I wish I had stayed long enough to see what

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was charging at me and my brother's at the river

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that day, though of course if I had, I might

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not be here to tell you my story. There's one

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other thing might not have anything to do with Bigfoot,

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but after the two other events, I don't know that

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it doesn't. It happened in twenty twelve, but before the

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first encounter. My wife was away that night helping to

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care for her invalid mother. It was just me and

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my two dogs at home. I loved my four legged girls.

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One is a husky wolf who is terrified of storms

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and loud noises, and the other is a roddy shepherd mix.

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They're good girls, and they're great guard dogs. I was

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lying in the bed with the window open, naturally my

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dogs were on the bed with me. Now, I guess.

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I was in what you might call a twilight sleep,

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not quite asleep, but definitely not awake, when I was

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startled wide awake by a sound so loud it should

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have damaged my ear drums. It was somewhere between a

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cannon blast and a thunderclap when it strikes too close

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to the house. Neither of my dogs seemed to be

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bothered by it. They barely lifted their heads and looked

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at me as if to say, what's up with you?

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And then they stretched out and they went back to sleep.

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It was too real to be a dream. It was

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too loud. I got up and looked outside, but I

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didn't see anything out of the ordinary. I laid back

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down and was about to fall back asleep when I

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felt something over my head, both inside and out. It

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was like the egg cracking game kids play, where they

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knock on someone's head and they run their fingers slightly

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down their hair so it feels like an egg was

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cracked over their head. I don't know if this had

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anything to do with Bigfoot, but like I said, I

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don't know that it doesn't either. Yeah, I get that,

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John boy. You know a lot of things we experience

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that are strains like that, you know, you can't explain them.

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I haven't experienced too many things like that one or two,

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and I've kind of shared them with y'all as far

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as noises and things, especially if you live in a

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rural area or the country, you know, bigfoots of possibility.

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I mean, there's so many reports that have to be real.

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In that event when y'all were fishing, that's pretty scary.

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I mean, you're sitting there, you don't know what's coming

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at you. You can't see it. You just hear it.

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You know, it's big, sounds like, like you said, an elephant.

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I mean, it's just all Some of these events, even

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though you don't see one, are scary. That's what I'm

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trying to get at. But John Boy, thanks for the story.

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Is really awesome. You did a great job right, and

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I really appreciate you sending it. We all enjoyed it.

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Thank you. Learn never