WEBVTT

1
00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.119
<v Speaker 1>Growing up, I lived in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee.

2
00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:14.199
<v Speaker 1>In the center of our neighborhood was a large outcropping

3
00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.760
<v Speaker 1>of woods, which was about three hundred and fifty acres total.

4
00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:21.039
<v Speaker 1>On one side of the woods was a small bed

5
00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:24.879
<v Speaker 1>of farm land. Bordering on the other sides were neighborhoods

6
00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:28.280
<v Speaker 1>in the highways. The woods were made up of two

7
00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.840
<v Speaker 1>large hills with a stream intersecting them. At the peaks

8
00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:35.560
<v Speaker 1>of both hills were two houses and a long strip

9
00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.000
<v Speaker 1>of driveway joining the houses and providing a route out

10
00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:42.320
<v Speaker 1>of the woods. All in all, it was a decent

11
00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:46.399
<v Speaker 1>sized portion of wilderness with the various connecting sections that

12
00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:51.119
<v Speaker 1>eventually led to the Cumberland Plateau. It's not the typical

13
00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.320
<v Speaker 1>place you'd imagine having Bigfoot experience, given that it isn't

14
00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.520
<v Speaker 1>rural and there are so many houses, but that's what

15
00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.560
<v Speaker 1>I believe happened. I can't say with absolute certainty, but

16
00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.560
<v Speaker 1>these combined experiences were definitely out of the ordinary. They

17
00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:11.319
<v Speaker 1>turned me from someone who did not care about or

18
00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.920
<v Speaker 1>believe in Bigfoot into someone who was utterly fascinated by

19
00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:21.120
<v Speaker 1>the subject. My first experience was on a chilly, overcast

20
00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.760
<v Speaker 1>fall day when I was ten years old. My dad

21
00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.680
<v Speaker 1>and I were having a lazy Sunday watching football when

22
00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.040
<v Speaker 1>we got a little bit bored and decided to take

23
00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.680
<v Speaker 1>a hike in the woods. We made our way through

24
00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.200
<v Speaker 1>the forest, taking time to appreciate this small patch of

25
00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:42.200
<v Speaker 1>isolation in an otherwise urban area. The woods were quiet

26
00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:47.079
<v Speaker 1>and early absent of wildlife. Everywhere, other than an isolated

27
00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.280
<v Speaker 1>chirt from a bird or limbs breaking below our feet,

28
00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:55.239
<v Speaker 1>there was silence all around us. As we traversed deeper,

29
00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:58.519
<v Speaker 1>we started to lose our bearings until we ultimately came

30
00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:04.120
<v Speaker 1>upon the aforementioned stream. We decided to follow it. As

31
00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:07.760
<v Speaker 1>we crested the land where it divided, we encountered that

32
00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.680
<v Speaker 1>section of driveway that I mentioned earlier. We then decided

33
00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.879
<v Speaker 1>we would simply follow the driveway down to whichever street

34
00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.159
<v Speaker 1>it led to. We didn't want to trespass on someone

35
00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.919
<v Speaker 1>else's land. We continued our hike down the hill, taking

36
00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:27.719
<v Speaker 1>no notice of our surroundings, talking and simply trying to

37
00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:32.039
<v Speaker 1>make our way back. Suddenly, however, from the corner of

38
00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.080
<v Speaker 1>my right eye, I saw something that looked out of place.

39
00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.639
<v Speaker 1>From far away, it looked like debris, but being the

40
00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.960
<v Speaker 1>curious kid, I was an aged closer for a better look.

41
00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.599
<v Speaker 1>When I arrived within about ten feet or so of

42
00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.360
<v Speaker 1>this mystery item, I realized what it was. It was

43
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:54.400
<v Speaker 1>a dead deer. This isn't something out of the ordinary

44
00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.919
<v Speaker 1>in the woods, far from it. But what was strange

45
00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.240
<v Speaker 1>was the manner in which the body was left. All

46
00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:06.719
<v Speaker 1>the legs had been pulled off, yet its head was intact. Additionally,

47
00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.240
<v Speaker 1>it was a fresh kill, and all of its ribs

48
00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:12.759
<v Speaker 1>appeared to have been pulled back, exposing an empty abdomen.

49
00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.120
<v Speaker 1>I thought nothing of it other than, oh, that's kind

50
00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.560
<v Speaker 1>of weird. But before I could truly process everything, my dad,

51
00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.319
<v Speaker 1>who was a short way behind me, firmly told me

52
00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:28.319
<v Speaker 1>to turn back and that we were leaving well. I

53
00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.879
<v Speaker 1>went along my merry way and did as he said,

54
00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:35.000
<v Speaker 1>not giving it another thought. I don't recall having any

55
00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.719
<v Speaker 1>sort of fear or sense that something was out of

56
00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:40.319
<v Speaker 1>the norm, but as my dad would later tell me,

57
00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.080
<v Speaker 1>he actually felt that we were in danger. We made

58
00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.199
<v Speaker 1>our way down the hill and back to a road

59
00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.719
<v Speaker 1>which took us home. We didn't speak of the incident further,

60
00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:54.039
<v Speaker 1>for whatever reason. It wasn't until years later that my

61
00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.120
<v Speaker 1>dad told me the hairs on the back of his

62
00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.759
<v Speaker 1>neck stood up, and something within him simply told him

63
00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.919
<v Speaker 1>the situation was not right. That day, while we have

64
00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.439
<v Speaker 1>no proof this was done by Bigfoot, the strange way

65
00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.039
<v Speaker 1>in which the deer was left in the feeling my

66
00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.680
<v Speaker 1>dad had of being watched gave me the impression that

67
00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:19.160
<v Speaker 1>something strange had occurred. Six years later, my dad and

68
00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:21.279
<v Speaker 1>I were taking a walk around the block on a

69
00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:25.879
<v Speaker 1>frigid February night. As I mentioned earlier, the woods are

70
00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.839
<v Speaker 1>in the center of our neighborhood and in close enough

71
00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.839
<v Speaker 1>proximity that whatever is occurring can normally be heard if

72
00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:37.120
<v Speaker 1>you were outside. It's common to hear coyotes and birds

73
00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.279
<v Speaker 1>and the typical noises that occur in nature. Yet on

74
00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:45.040
<v Speaker 1>this night, what we heard was very, very strange. As

75
00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.079
<v Speaker 1>he and I rounded the corner of one of the

76
00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:50.839
<v Speaker 1>roads in our neighborhood, we heard a loud howl which

77
00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.839
<v Speaker 1>seemed to reverberate throughout the night for an unnaturally long

78
00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:59.720
<v Speaker 1>period of time. It began loudly and increased in pitch

79
00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.720
<v Speaker 1>before if we're finally fading away after eight or so seconds.

80
00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:09.639
<v Speaker 1>It left both of us utterly dumbfounded and amazed. My Dad,

81
00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.680
<v Speaker 1>being a believer in bigfoot, looked at me with surprised

82
00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.920
<v Speaker 1>white eyes, and I was equally caught off guard and

83
00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.160
<v Speaker 1>asked him what we had just heard. He told me

84
00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.480
<v Speaker 1>he didn't know, but I'm quite sure he and I

85
00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:25.600
<v Speaker 1>both knew what it was. With all that said, we

86
00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.800
<v Speaker 1>are not avid out dorsemen or hunters, and it's possible

87
00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:33.279
<v Speaker 1>all this can be chalked up to misidentification. Yet with

88
00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.680
<v Speaker 1>the limited amount of known fauna in the middle of Tennessee,

89
00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:40.759
<v Speaker 1>it's hard for me to imagine we were simply misidentifying

90
00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.920
<v Speaker 1>the sound. It was extremely human like, yet it was

91
00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.480
<v Speaker 1>also a sound outside of what is possible for a human.

92
00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.959
<v Speaker 1>As contradictory as this may sound, that's the best way

93
00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.399
<v Speaker 1>I can describe it. It was an animalistic, powerful, semi

94
00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.120
<v Speaker 1>human sound. It sounded very similar to the audio from

95
00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.959
<v Speaker 1>the Ohio Howes video on YouTube, which is a long,

96
00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.759
<v Speaker 1>almost siren like whale that sounds like it's coming from

97
00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.800
<v Speaker 1>a large, powerful animal. Whatever the noise was, it stunned us.

98
00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.399
<v Speaker 1>We stood there, dumbfound to trying to comprehend what we'd

99
00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.480
<v Speaker 1>just heard. We continued to stand there, frozen in our

100
00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.839
<v Speaker 1>tracks and waiting to hear the noise again, if for

101
00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.839
<v Speaker 1>no other reason than the hope that we weren't imagining

102
00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.160
<v Speaker 1>it the first time and we were not crazy. But

103
00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.160
<v Speaker 1>we didn't hear it again. We just heard the quiet

104
00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.279
<v Speaker 1>of the night. And despite how amazed we both were,

105
00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.319
<v Speaker 1>it also began to sink in that this experience would

106
00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.120
<v Speaker 1>be shared by us alone. No one else would believe

107
00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.600
<v Speaker 1>what happened, no matter how certain we both were. And

108
00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:52.480
<v Speaker 1>to be honest, I don't blame them. If bigfoot even exists,

109
00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.560
<v Speaker 1>why would there be one in a residential area in

110
00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:59.240
<v Speaker 1>the outskirts of a large city. It's a valid question,

111
00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.879
<v Speaker 1>But my dad and I both know what we heard

112
00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.800
<v Speaker 1>and saw. These combined experiences have forever made me someone

113
00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:11.120
<v Speaker 1>who questions the natural world and wonders what all is

114
00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.720
<v Speaker 1>truly out there? And that's the end, And I you

115
00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:21.079
<v Speaker 1>know his last paragraph. These stories make me question what

116
00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:25.120
<v Speaker 1>are the wonders that are truly out there? You guys

117
00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.959
<v Speaker 1>are so nice to send these to me, and I

118
00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.319
<v Speaker 1>don't just look at them as material to read on

119
00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.120
<v Speaker 1>a YouTube channel. These stories fascinate me. You know, in

120
00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:40.680
<v Speaker 1>this culture, people don't people don't write. People just don't write.

121
00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.319
<v Speaker 1>I mean they'll write emails, and they'll write text. They're

122
00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.439
<v Speaker 1>actually writing all the time. But to sit down and

123
00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:51.399
<v Speaker 1>actually put together a cogent, organized recurrence or account or

124
00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:56.959
<v Speaker 1>a remembrance of an event, it's really uncanny. And I've

125
00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.480
<v Speaker 1>thought about this for the three years I've been doing

126
00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.720
<v Speaker 1>this channel. I just don't think people just do that

127
00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:07.560
<v Speaker 1>just for kicks. Maybe some do, And I've said before

128
00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.519
<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling I get trolled on this with

129
00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.279
<v Speaker 1>fake stories sometimes, but there's no way for me to know.

130
00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.959
<v Speaker 1>I don't put them to any test, and I don't

131
00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:20.000
<v Speaker 1>now all the crazy Bigfoot people will come in and going, well,

132
00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.680
<v Speaker 1>it's all fiction, blah blah blah. Give me a story.

133
00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.399
<v Speaker 1>Just find me one story that you can verify, you

134
00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:33.600
<v Speaker 1>can verify without any question, and I'll believe you. The

135
00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.919
<v Speaker 1>only Bigfoot story that I know that we can verify

136
00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:43.200
<v Speaker 1>without question is the Patterson Gimblin story, Bob Gimlin's story.

137
00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.559
<v Speaker 1>I've heard it several times, what a great guy Bob

138
00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.480
<v Speaker 1>Gimmlin is. And I'm talking about the Bob Gimlin who

139
00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:53.559
<v Speaker 1>was with Roger Patterson when they filmed Patty. Not only

140
00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.080
<v Speaker 1>is he just a nice guy, but he was a

141
00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.360
<v Speaker 1>raw high dude when he was younger, and those guys

142
00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.799
<v Speaker 1>weren't scared to anything. But to me, that's the only

143
00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.919
<v Speaker 1>that's the only verifiable story that I have ever seen

144
00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.480
<v Speaker 1>with without question, I believe the Patterson Gimlin story. I

145
00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:15.519
<v Speaker 1>absolutely believe it. All these other stories that people send

146
00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.559
<v Speaker 1>me in that other people have put out, uh, you know,

147
00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.600
<v Speaker 1>to the masses, there probably are some that can be verified,

148
00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.080
<v Speaker 1>but I can't find them. I can't. You have to

149
00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:28.039
<v Speaker 1>be able to back them up. But back to my point,

150
00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.960
<v Speaker 1>these stories, whether true or not, they're fascinating. I mean,

151
00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:36.320
<v Speaker 1>they're just unbelievable. You guys asked me to keep commenting

152
00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.559
<v Speaker 1>after these stories, and I never planned not to do that.

153
00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.600
<v Speaker 1>I just was kind of y'all got to give me

154
00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.000
<v Speaker 1>some room to kind of poke at these people that

155
00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.039
<v Speaker 1>jab at me. I don't ever pick a fight. I

156
00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.080
<v Speaker 1>never never pick a fight with anybody. I don't argue

157
00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:56.480
<v Speaker 1>with people about religion or politics, or wearing a mask

158
00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:59.360
<v Speaker 1>or not wearing a mask, or getting vaccinated or not.

159
00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:02.960
<v Speaker 1>I don't need to impose my beliefs on you in

160
00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:05.960
<v Speaker 1>a way that is going to make you feel uncomfortable,

161
00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.960
<v Speaker 1>mainly because there's nothing I'm gonna say, this's gonna change

162
00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.440
<v Speaker 1>your mind. It's just like this. These people who are

163
00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:17.279
<v Speaker 1>freaks on bigfoot, they comment on this channel all that

164
00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:20.879
<v Speaker 1>stories bes well, how do you know what stories are? Bs? Really?

165
00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.559
<v Speaker 1>You know this guy, you know the writer, you know

166
00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:25.960
<v Speaker 1>the person who wrote this, how do you know? But

167
00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.039
<v Speaker 1>they just have to say something. They're the kind of

168
00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.279
<v Speaker 1>people who have to just force their beliefs and their

169
00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:34.600
<v Speaker 1>opinions on you. And they feel like if they don't

170
00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.600
<v Speaker 1>they I don't know what it is. They feel like

171
00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.440
<v Speaker 1>something's missing in their life or something. You guys ask

172
00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:42.840
<v Speaker 1>me to comment on these stories, So there you go.

173
00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:44.759
<v Speaker 1>But let me every once in a while pick at

174
00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.480
<v Speaker 1>these jerks who comment on this channel. Let me have

175
00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.679
<v Speaker 1>a little fun with them. And that's all I want

176
00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:51.519
<v Speaker 1>to do. That's all that is. And I had never

177
00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:58.320
<v Speaker 1>planned on not commenting on this. So my friends and

178
00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:02.399
<v Speaker 1>I are all avid out doorsmen. Between the four of us,

179
00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.159
<v Speaker 1>we account for one hundred and thirty years or more

180
00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.799
<v Speaker 1>of experience in the woods. We're from Ohio. But on

181
00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.200
<v Speaker 1>the occasion I'm about to relate, we were hunting wild

182
00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:19.919
<v Speaker 1>boar outside of Dunellen, Florida, near the Okalla National Forest.

183
00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.360
<v Speaker 1>We arrived at our camp site and set up early

184
00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:26.360
<v Speaker 1>in order to make our way into the woods before dark.

185
00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.279
<v Speaker 1>I was deepest into the woods with my three buddies

186
00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:34.559
<v Speaker 1>spread out and situated in various locations between me and

187
00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:38.720
<v Speaker 1>our camp. As I sat there waiting for that time

188
00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:42.159
<v Speaker 1>to pass, during which the daytime animals settled in for

189
00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.519
<v Speaker 1>the night and the nocturnal animals woke up and came

190
00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:49.320
<v Speaker 1>to life, the woods were split by the sound of

191
00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:54.360
<v Speaker 1>a blood curdling scream. It came from somewhere over by

192
00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.519
<v Speaker 1>the stand of one of my buddies, but it definitely

193
00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:02.519
<v Speaker 1>wasn't him, It wasn't human. It all frozen by the

194
00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:06.759
<v Speaker 1>shock and fear triggered by this ungodly sound, I sat

195
00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.480
<v Speaker 1>still and listened intently for closed as to what this

196
00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:14.960
<v Speaker 1>thing was. A short three minutes that felt more like

197
00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.759
<v Speaker 1>a few long centuries later, the thing let out another

198
00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.200
<v Speaker 1>whooping howl. This time it came from a place that

199
00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.720
<v Speaker 1>seemed impossible to reach in such a short period of time.

200
00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:29.399
<v Speaker 1>Assuming there was only one creature, it must have been

201
00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:35.000
<v Speaker 1>incredibly fast to have reached that point so quickly. Suddenly,

202
00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.159
<v Speaker 1>uncomfortably aware of how much further I was into the forest,

203
00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.240
<v Speaker 1>than my friends. I was in a mental battle with

204
00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.559
<v Speaker 1>myself as to whether I was brave enough to stay

205
00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.840
<v Speaker 1>where I was a bit longer or high tailed out

206
00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.679
<v Speaker 1>of there as fast as I could and risk the

207
00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.159
<v Speaker 1>ridicule I was sure to face for being afraid of

208
00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:00.679
<v Speaker 1>that terrible scream. Somehow I managed to keep myself together

209
00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.440
<v Speaker 1>and stay in place until three am, when a low,

210
00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.840
<v Speaker 1>guttural scream wrenched me from my stand and I went in.

211
00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:13.440
<v Speaker 1>The Next morning, I discovered that the others had all

212
00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.759
<v Speaker 1>gone in as soon as they heard the first scream.

213
00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.000
<v Speaker 1>One of my friends has hunted for forty seven years.

214
00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.519
<v Speaker 1>He said he'd never heard anything like it before. At

215
00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.519
<v Speaker 1>that point, we all admitted to being afraid of whatever

216
00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.720
<v Speaker 1>was out there, despite the screams we heard the night before,

217
00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.320
<v Speaker 1>I decided to go back into the woods that night

218
00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.919
<v Speaker 1>to hunt. I chose to stand a bit closer to camp,

219
00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.159
<v Speaker 1>thinking that would alleviate my fears. Sum Right away I

220
00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.879
<v Speaker 1>noticed how quiet the woods were. It wasn't that peaceful

221
00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:50.919
<v Speaker 1>time around dusk. It was heavy silence. The crickets weren't chirping,

222
00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.120
<v Speaker 1>and the birds weren't singing, and no squirrels were barking

223
00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:57.559
<v Speaker 1>or running around. I didn't hear any of the typical

224
00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.879
<v Speaker 1>forest animals at all. It was it's just me and

225
00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.480
<v Speaker 1>the mosquitoes. I wasn't settled into my stand for long

226
00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.120
<v Speaker 1>when things started being thrown at me. Each time it

227
00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.159
<v Speaker 1>was something a little bigger, until finally a three inch

228
00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.279
<v Speaker 1>thick by three foot long log was thrown at me

229
00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.879
<v Speaker 1>like a javelin from a distance of eighty yards or so.

230
00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.120
<v Speaker 1>I got the message I needed to lead. As I

231
00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.480
<v Speaker 1>was getting my stuff together to get out of there,

232
00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.480
<v Speaker 1>another smaller stick hit me in the head, as if

233
00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.279
<v Speaker 1>to say stay out. We eventually learned that the gentleman

234
00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.639
<v Speaker 1>who owns the woods won't go into them alone. Every

235
00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.159
<v Speaker 1>other time we'd made the trip down there to hunt,

236
00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.480
<v Speaker 1>we bagged a hog. That trip. We never saw a

237
00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.360
<v Speaker 1>single animal, not one. That was the only time we

238
00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.960
<v Speaker 1>ever had anything strange happen. But I'm still not taking

239
00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.279
<v Speaker 1>any chances when I hunt that area. Like the landowner,

240
00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.480
<v Speaker 1>I don't go in alone. I'm often ridiculed for telling

241
00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.919
<v Speaker 1>this story. It doesn't matter to me. I don't know

242
00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.600
<v Speaker 1>what was in those woods, but it wasn't an animal,

243
00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:08.879
<v Speaker 1>and it was not a human. Oh man, that's creepy.

244
00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.840
<v Speaker 1>That's a creepy story. I'm pretty impressed you stayed there

245
00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.559
<v Speaker 1>till three am. I don't know how much longer that

246
00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:19.320
<v Speaker 1>was from the first scream to the next one, but dude,

247
00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:22.039
<v Speaker 1>if i'd heard that scream and then heard it closer

248
00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.960
<v Speaker 1>a few minutes later, I'd have been high tailing it

249
00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.360
<v Speaker 1>back to camp. I'm not a chicken. I'm not a chicken,

250
00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.480
<v Speaker 1>but if I hear something like that, it's time to leave. Dude,

251
00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.879
<v Speaker 1>You've got my admiration. You got a big set brother

252
00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.519
<v Speaker 1>for staying in there till three am. I'd have been

253
00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.919
<v Speaker 1>scared to death. Great story. Thank you to the writer, Brad.

254
00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.039
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate you sending it to me. And let's move

255
00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.600
<v Speaker 1>on to another one. My two brothers and I have

256
00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.639
<v Speaker 1>run around the woods both day and night since we

257
00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.360
<v Speaker 1>were kids. It's a second home to us. So in

258
00:15:57.399 --> 00:16:00.679
<v Speaker 1>twenty twelve, when we decided to go fishing on the

259
00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:05.559
<v Speaker 1>Little Miami River in Oregonia, Ohio, it was no big

260
00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.240
<v Speaker 1>deal to haul our tackle for thirty minutes through a

261
00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:12.200
<v Speaker 1>patch of woods, an open field, and another patch of

262
00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.840
<v Speaker 1>woods and get to the spot we wanted to fish.

263
00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.399
<v Speaker 1>We had a midsummer thunderstorm, earlier that day, so we

264
00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.679
<v Speaker 1>were looking forward to a good night of fishing. We

265
00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.159
<v Speaker 1>reached the river, got set up, and cast out our lines,

266
00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.440
<v Speaker 1>and then we settled into eating some sandwiches my wife

267
00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.279
<v Speaker 1>had packed for us. Everything was right with the world.

268
00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.279
<v Speaker 1>We hadn't swallowed our first bites when a howl that

269
00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:43.039
<v Speaker 1>was also a roar shattered the woods around us. We

270
00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.360
<v Speaker 1>froze in mid bite and stared at each other in shock,

271
00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.559
<v Speaker 1>having no idea what could have made such an awful cry.

272
00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:54.360
<v Speaker 1>Before anyone could say a word, another screaming roar answered

273
00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.600
<v Speaker 1>back from across the river, and this time it vibrated

274
00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.919
<v Speaker 1>in my chest like I was sitting too close to

275
00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:04.119
<v Speaker 1>the speakers at a rock concert. This was followed by

276
00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.640
<v Speaker 1>the sound of something crashing through the trees, like an

277
00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.039
<v Speaker 1>angry bull elephant on a rampage. It was getting closer

278
00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.039
<v Speaker 1>by the second before it could burst through the brush

279
00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.079
<v Speaker 1>at us. We each grabbed our poles without even bothering

280
00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.160
<v Speaker 1>to reel in the lines, and we ran as fast

281
00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:23.359
<v Speaker 1>as we could out of there. As we sprinted through

282
00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.079
<v Speaker 1>the first patch of woods, the lines ran out or

283
00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.839
<v Speaker 1>got snagged on surrounding brush, but we didn't stop. We

284
00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.119
<v Speaker 1>just jerked on the poles, snapped the lines, and kept running.

285
00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.079
<v Speaker 1>It took a lot less than thirty minutes to get

286
00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.440
<v Speaker 1>back to our vehicle, and we talked about that experience

287
00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.960
<v Speaker 1>a lot. We didn't see anything, but we all agreed

288
00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.400
<v Speaker 1>it was either a bigfoot or a dog man. Now

289
00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.759
<v Speaker 1>that wasn't my only experience. One early fall day, I

290
00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.240
<v Speaker 1>decided to go hiking alone in the Narrow State Park

291
00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.079
<v Speaker 1>in Beaver Creek, Ohio. The leaves had just started to

292
00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:02.720
<v Speaker 1>change color. It was a beautiful day, but as I

293
00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:06.160
<v Speaker 1>started up the trail, I noticed the utter silence around me.

294
00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.200
<v Speaker 1>There was no noise, no movement, no sign of life

295
00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.160
<v Speaker 1>of any kind. Not even an ant was crawling. I

296
00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.759
<v Speaker 1>guess you could say it was a dead zone. I

297
00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.000
<v Speaker 1>was just beginning to adjust to this oddity when I

298
00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.759
<v Speaker 1>got the uncomfortable feeling that I was being watched. I

299
00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.640
<v Speaker 1>looked all around me, but I didn't see anyone or

300
00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.119
<v Speaker 1>anything for that matter. And I know this sounds crazy,

301
00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.160
<v Speaker 1>but I was overcome with a sensation that my mind

302
00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.240
<v Speaker 1>was being read. It was like a consciousness other than

303
00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.720
<v Speaker 1>my own was inside my head with me. That was

304
00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.160
<v Speaker 1>enough for me. I turned around and immediately headed back

305
00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.640
<v Speaker 1>to my car. The feeling stayed with me until I

306
00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.720
<v Speaker 1>pulled out of the parking lot. I've come across Bigfoot

307
00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.640
<v Speaker 1>stories where Bigfoot used some type of telepathy or something,

308
00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:01.440
<v Speaker 1>and I've heard similar accounts on Lee's Strolgy YouTube channel.

309
00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.000
<v Speaker 1>So I suspect a Bigfoot was present that day. I

310
00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.440
<v Speaker 1>didn't want to stay around long enough to find out.

311
00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:10.119
<v Speaker 1>I wish I had stayed long enough to see what

312
00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:12.839
<v Speaker 1>was charging at me and my brother's at the river

313
00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.759
<v Speaker 1>that day, though of course if I had, I might

314
00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:19.559
<v Speaker 1>not be here to tell you my story. There's one

315
00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.960
<v Speaker 1>other thing might not have anything to do with Bigfoot,

316
00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.759
<v Speaker 1>but after the two other events, I don't know that

317
00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.279
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't. It happened in twenty twelve, but before the

318
00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:35.319
<v Speaker 1>first encounter. My wife was away that night helping to

319
00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:38.519
<v Speaker 1>care for her invalid mother. It was just me and

320
00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:42.400
<v Speaker 1>my two dogs at home. I loved my four legged girls.

321
00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.640
<v Speaker 1>One is a husky wolf who is terrified of storms

322
00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.960
<v Speaker 1>and loud noises, and the other is a roddy shepherd mix.

323
00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:54.160
<v Speaker 1>They're good girls, and they're great guard dogs. I was

324
00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:57.160
<v Speaker 1>lying in the bed with the window open, naturally my

325
00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.599
<v Speaker 1>dogs were on the bed with me. Now, I guess.

326
00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.240
<v Speaker 1>I was in what you might call a twilight sleep,

327
00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.000
<v Speaker 1>not quite asleep, but definitely not awake, when I was

328
00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:09.279
<v Speaker 1>startled wide awake by a sound so loud it should

329
00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.920
<v Speaker 1>have damaged my ear drums. It was somewhere between a

330
00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:16.519
<v Speaker 1>cannon blast and a thunderclap when it strikes too close

331
00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:19.839
<v Speaker 1>to the house. Neither of my dogs seemed to be

332
00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:23.119
<v Speaker 1>bothered by it. They barely lifted their heads and looked

333
00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.000
<v Speaker 1>at me as if to say, what's up with you?

334
00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.319
<v Speaker 1>And then they stretched out and they went back to sleep.

335
00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:31.599
<v Speaker 1>It was too real to be a dream. It was

336
00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:34.359
<v Speaker 1>too loud. I got up and looked outside, but I

337
00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:38.000
<v Speaker 1>didn't see anything out of the ordinary. I laid back

338
00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:40.200
<v Speaker 1>down and was about to fall back asleep when I

339
00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.720
<v Speaker 1>felt something over my head, both inside and out. It

340
00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:47.759
<v Speaker 1>was like the egg cracking game kids play, where they

341
00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.599
<v Speaker 1>knock on someone's head and they run their fingers slightly

342
00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:52.759
<v Speaker 1>down their hair so it feels like an egg was

343
00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.880
<v Speaker 1>cracked over their head. I don't know if this had

344
00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.759
<v Speaker 1>anything to do with Bigfoot, but like I said, I

345
00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:03.799
<v Speaker 1>don't know that it doesn't either. Yeah, I get that,

346
00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.680
<v Speaker 1>John boy. You know a lot of things we experience

347
00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.440
<v Speaker 1>that are strains like that, you know, you can't explain them.

348
00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.039
<v Speaker 1>I haven't experienced too many things like that one or two,

349
00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:17.680
<v Speaker 1>and I've kind of shared them with y'all as far

350
00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:21.400
<v Speaker 1>as noises and things, especially if you live in a

351
00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.480
<v Speaker 1>rural area or the country, you know, bigfoots of possibility.

352
00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:27.839
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's so many reports that have to be real.

353
00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:32.279
<v Speaker 1>In that event when y'all were fishing, that's pretty scary.

354
00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.359
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you're sitting there, you don't know what's coming

355
00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:37.119
<v Speaker 1>at you. You can't see it. You just hear it.

356
00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:40.079
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's big, sounds like, like you said, an elephant.

357
00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.319
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's just all Some of these events, even

358
00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:45.319
<v Speaker 1>though you don't see one, are scary. That's what I'm

359
00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.160
<v Speaker 1>trying to get at. But John Boy, thanks for the story.

360
00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.799
<v Speaker 1>Is really awesome. You did a great job right, and

361
00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.480
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate you sending it. We all enjoyed it.

362
00:21:53.559 --> 00:22:00.799
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. Learn never