1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,279 Speaker 1: All right, here's a story or an email with a 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,080 story from I don't know how to pronounce her name. 3 00:00:13,199 --> 00:00:23,000 It's spelled Dha and a Dana, Dahnnahnah, Dohnnah, Johanna, do Hannah, Hannah, Dana. 4 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,079 I think it's Dana. I'm just playing. It's a pretty name, 5 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:28,960 she writes. Hello. My name is Dana and I live 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,320 in the Pacific Northwest in a small town in Washington. 7 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:35,759 My husband and I have a story to tell that 8 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,200 happened to us in twenty and fifteen. In November. We 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,240 had moved into an off grid RV park alongside the 10 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,039 Lewis and Columbia River in April of that year, and 11 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,240 during the summer we began exploring the wooded area behind 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,399 the park. In the fall, I started having the uneasy 13 00:00:54,479 --> 00:00:57,439 feeling that we were being watched, but I never saw 14 00:00:57,479 --> 00:01:01,960 anything out of the ordinary. When winter came, we had 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,959 stocked up supplies and were preparing to deal with the 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 cold weather coming on. We would not go in the 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,120 woods hiking around, but around the third week in November, 18 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:16,519 we noticed unusual activity going on. The area got quiet 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,200 and I never heard so much as a frog croaking, 20 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,120 and that's when I knew we were being watched. My 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,760 husband and I were woken up to feel something large 22 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,400 slap the side of our trailer from the backside. Our 23 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,840 bedroom faced the woods, and it seemed that the woods 24 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:37,560 amplified the sound, then the sound of something moving around outside. 25 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:40,280 Neither of us dared to step foot outside, nor would 26 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,959 we allow our animals out. We could hear branches breaking 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,680 in the woods behind us, and a little later we 28 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,319 heard screams that would scare the Bejesus out of us. This, 29 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:55,239 unfortunately was not the end, because whatever was out there 30 00:01:55,359 --> 00:01:58,239 terrified the dogs in the camp, and I heard more 31 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,640 than one screaming as it was killed. That happened at 32 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:05,840 least three nights in a row. The screams from this 33 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:08,360 creature could be heard from near the river and would 34 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,840 start from around nine pm until three or four am 35 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,719 in the morning. We didn't sleep much during this time. 36 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,400 Then the third night, this creature came around again, and 37 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:22,919 this time it shoved at the trailer. My husband was 38 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,639 alone at the time, so I only had this accounting 39 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,919 for this incident, but it scared him to death. I 40 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,479 came home from staying over at a friend's house and 41 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,240 gave her heads up. She was skeptical, but didn't outright 42 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:40,280 call me a liar. That night, the whooping and screaming 43 00:02:40,479 --> 00:02:44,439 went on again and again, and I heard dogs barking fiercely. 44 00:02:45,759 --> 00:02:48,080 Pretty soon, a neighbor living on the other side of 45 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,080 the park grabbed his gun and emptied a magazine in 46 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,000 the general direction of where it was. I didn't return 47 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,960 after that. There was one rumor that said bear tracks 48 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,400 were found, but I doubt that was it. Bears don't 49 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:05,879 scream and whook. But the most bizarre and scary point 50 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:08,800 of this whole encounter was when my husband and I 51 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,919 and our cats heard heavy pounding steps that literally shook 52 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,919 the ground behind our trailer. We also had a swampy 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,479 area behind the trailer that filled whenever the heavy rains came. 54 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,159 My cat went on guard duty during that time and 55 00:03:24,199 --> 00:03:28,159 would lay between me and the window at any rate. 56 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,439 My husband and I have talked to quite a few 57 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,680 folks at the RV part, and the odd thing was 58 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,840 none of them claimed to hear or see anything out 59 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:41,240 of the ordinary. We still live at that part. We've 60 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,159 heard no more unusual activity, but have gone into the 61 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:47,680 woods only during the daylight. We look up at the trees, 62 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,400 and it does not appear that something very large passed 63 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,400 through there. High branches are broken, and large trees are 64 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,960 toppled over and right in the middle of the woods. 65 00:03:57,719 --> 00:04:00,879 That was enough, plus our experience, to make believers out 66 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:04,240 of my husband and I. The end, Oh wow, that's 67 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,400 a good story. You know. The strange thing about that 68 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:10,000 is you have all this stuff going on around around 69 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,319 your trailer. And I'm assuming that the camper trailers I'm 70 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:17,439 sure they're fifth wheels or you know, big box trailers 71 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,000 are probably fairly close together. I mean, you can probably 72 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,800 see neighbor after neighbor, and all of this noise, all 73 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:27,759 this racket, this thing slapping the side of your your 74 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,040 caravan or your trailer, and nobody else in the whole 75 00:04:32,079 --> 00:04:35,040 place has any idea what's going on. They don't they 76 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,639 don't hear it. The thing doesn't slap their trailer. But 77 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,839 you seem to know what this thing was. Plus that 78 00:04:41,959 --> 00:04:45,319 premonition that you had of something watching you, you know, 79 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:49,519 sometimes that sixth sense tells it all. This was a 80 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,279 great story. Dana, Dha and A. I'm very sorry if 81 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,800 I butchered the way to pronounce your name, but it's 82 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,399 it's spelled pretty it's spell and I think it's Dana. 83 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,000 All right, Well, thanks Dana for the email. It was 84 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:10,759 really great. Here is an email from Ted and here's 85 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,240 what he writes. I'm not just a fair weather camper 86 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,639 and fisherman. I love the outdoors and exploring it. And 87 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,920 this is a true story. I'm now fifty eight years old. 88 00:05:23,319 --> 00:05:27,120 On this evening, I was in my mid forties. My 89 00:05:27,199 --> 00:05:29,040 wife and I used to camp a lot in a 90 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:31,879 big one ton truck and a camper rig that we own, 91 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:35,319 And on this evening, myself and my friend Tom had 92 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:38,040 just made camp on the edge of a secluded lake 93 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:41,759 midway up Vancouver Island on the coast of British Columbia. 94 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,319 We left our wives at an event in the town 95 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,920 of Nanimo and we were going to continue on up 96 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,439 the island. Okay, there's nothing funny about that sentence. However, 97 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:59,519 I think it's funny that Nannimo is spelled Naimo and 98 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,040 the right phonetically wrote it out for me. And I 99 00:06:03,079 --> 00:06:04,759 don't know if he did that for me or if 100 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:08,079 he probably does that for a lot of people. But 101 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,759 I've had a lot of people say hey, I can 102 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,480 do some editing for you, and I can even phonetically 103 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,360 spell out the words that you probably can't pronounced, y'all. 104 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:20,040 I'm not embarrassed that I can't pronounce some words. And 105 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:22,480 there are some words that I know how to pronounce, 106 00:06:22,879 --> 00:06:25,439 but I cannot get my mouth to form the words. 107 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,839 I don't know what it is. Anyway, I'm digressing quite 108 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,040 a bit here. I just thought that was funny that 109 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,240 he phonetically spelled it out. All right. Back to the story. 110 00:06:36,319 --> 00:06:39,040 The plan was to rough it fishing in a rugged 111 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,639 spot that I knew of, just us guys. After leaving 112 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,199 the main highway, we had traveled for the better part 113 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,680 of the afternoon down a gravel logging road to reach 114 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,040 the spot. It was late spring and there was still 115 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:56,199 a chill in the air. The trip in was long, 116 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,879 but I was excited to experience these secluded lakeside ca 117 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,120 caampsites again. I expected some monster trout to be waiting. 118 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,199 I had been there once before to visit a large 119 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,360 cave that was at the very end of the road 120 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,319 into this area. We made our way around to the 121 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,079 backside of the lake and we had our pick of campsites. Well, 122 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,800 if you could call them that. This mountain side came 123 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:26,160 straight down to the lake without a natural beach. Whoever 124 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,360 had created the campsites had cut away material for a 125 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,319 road and then left it natural around the lake. The 126 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,040 campsites themselves were nothing special. They were just reasonably flat 127 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:43,160 spots cut into the wild lakeside. Once we parked, looking 128 00:07:43,199 --> 00:07:45,600 back at the mountains, seemed to reach right down to 129 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,000 the very edge of the lake, and it was an 130 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:51,199 odd place, and I remember not being so happy with it. 131 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,959 The truck was parked and the jacks were down, and 132 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,439 I got on with building a campfire. We pulled out 133 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,439 our chairs and began to talk and relax. Now Tom 134 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,439 is a notorious loud talker. He had no sense of 135 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:10,720 how a private conversation worked. So what was once silent 136 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:14,560 wilderness was now wide awake. The two of us were 137 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,879 probably now audible all across the lake. That said, we 138 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,720 heard no other voices. We were there on our own, 139 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,240 and there was still a bit of daylight, and we 140 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:30,240 were enjoying recounting the events of previous fishing trips. I 141 00:08:30,279 --> 00:08:33,039 was starting to talk about dinner when Tom's face took 142 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,480 on a startled Look, Hey, you just about got hit 143 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,960 by that rock. He said, Well, I was oblivious. I'd 144 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,799 just been gnattering away, but he'd seen a large rock 145 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:47,159 fly by and land not far away from me. A 146 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:50,320 few minutes later, another rock bounced past us, and I 147 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,799 saw this one. It was a softball sized rock, and 148 00:08:53,879 --> 00:08:58,799 I couldn't help but be concerned. I recognized the danger 149 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,799 of being hit. I figured they were rolling down the 150 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:05,679 mountain side because of snow melting. It was certainly steep 151 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:08,080 enough that a rock could bounce down from some kind 152 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,559 of natural erosion like that, but the idea that they 153 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,840 were being thrown that never occurred to me. This continued 154 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,480 a few more times until a big one landed in 155 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:22,519 the lake, and with this we stood up and began 156 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,639 looking up the mountain side. We couldn't see anything moving, 157 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,960 there were no deer animals visible, and there didn't seem 158 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,639 to be an area that looked loose. Once we began 159 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:37,639 surveying the situation, the rocks stopped, and it was hard 160 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,879 to take in such a large area, and now the 161 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,759 light was getting low. We lost interest in the rocks. 162 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,720 I went on with cooking dinner. We ate and settled 163 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,320 down to a few beers and probably some more lively conversation, 164 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,679 and then something happened that I'll never forget. The silence 165 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,440 of the lakeside ended like an alarm bell ringing, and 166 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:03,399 what seemed to be a woman began screaming at the 167 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,360 top of her lungs. It was loud and clear, and 168 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,240 coming from somewhere right above us on this dark mountain side. 169 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,960 We were both instantly at full alert. The screaming then continued, 170 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,000 just as loud, echoing out across the lake. This time 171 00:10:21,039 --> 00:10:23,600 it scared me to the bone, sending shivers up and 172 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:28,679 down my back. The screams sounded human. It did not 173 00:10:28,799 --> 00:10:31,159 occur to me it was anything else but a woman 174 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,600 screaming at the top of her lungs. Well, who was 175 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,240 up there? There are no roads on that mountain. What 176 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,679 was someone doing up there? This was so out of 177 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,799 place on such a quiet night, and with no other 178 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,600 signs of people around the area. The area was not populated. 179 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,600 This was logging company land, with twenty miles of boggy, 180 00:10:53,799 --> 00:11:00,440 mosquito infested forest punctuated with small, shallow lakes, were backing 181 00:11:00,519 --> 00:11:04,879 into coastal mountains, and beyond that was wild rainforest for 182 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,519 many miles leading to the wild north coast of the 183 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:12,799 island was someone in serious trouble or being attacked. I 184 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,679 had no doubt in that moment that that was the case. 185 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:19,440 My senses were piqued and I expected to hear someone 186 00:11:19,519 --> 00:11:25,000 crying for help any second. A minute passed, there was nothing, 187 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:31,240 no sound. Neither Tom or I spoke. It was completely silent. 188 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:38,320 Darkness came quick and horror enveloped our campsite. The fear 189 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,320 that someone was in serious trouble hung over us, but 190 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,639 there were no more signs of this person. We looked 191 00:11:44,639 --> 00:11:47,720 around as best as we could with our flashlights, and 192 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:50,399 we called out into the dark, and there were no 193 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:55,720 further signs of trouble or strangeness. I had a lousy 194 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,399 night of sleep. I felt someone had been in trouble, 195 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,720 but I also knew how odd it was. How could 196 00:12:02,799 --> 00:12:05,639 someone be up on that mountain side with no roads? 197 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:11,320 She sounded really close. Why would she stop yelling? What 198 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:14,480 would make a person scream like that and just stop? 199 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:18,960 There was intense emotion in this scream, and whoever did 200 00:12:19,039 --> 00:12:24,159 it was communicating with us on purpose. At that time, 201 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,600 I didn't see how the rocks and the screams could 202 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,399 be connected, But in hindsight and with what I've learned. 203 00:12:30,919 --> 00:12:34,000 I suspect it may have been sosquatch objecting to our 204 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,600 rude and noisy entrance to the lake. Were we being 205 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,159 told that we were not alone? Was this creature imitating 206 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,879 the sounds that other humans had made when it had 207 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,360 encountered us? The next morning, several other camping rigs rumbled 208 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,559 into the area. The sounds of a few families and 209 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,240 boaters fill the air. We got on with our fishing, 210 00:12:56,279 --> 00:12:59,360 and we forgot about our strange welcome, and we never 211 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,440 spoke of it again. Tom was killed in a car 212 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:06,679 accident a few years ago. Now, I've camped throughout the 213 00:13:06,759 --> 00:13:11,080 rockies in the national parks, some with bears close, and 214 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:14,879 cougars are common animals here on the island. I've never 215 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:19,600 encountered such a mystery in the wild country before or since. 216 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,440 That's the end of his email. Oh man, what a 217 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,600 great story. Vancouver Island is a total wilderness from what 218 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,320 I understand. I've never been out there, but I've seen 219 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:35,159 TV shows on it and videos about Vancouver Island, and 220 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,320 I think it's full of bears. Brown bears, the real 221 00:13:38,399 --> 00:13:41,559 big mean ones like the grizzly Kodyak kind of bears. 222 00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:45,039 I don't know. In fishing. I think I'd have to 223 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,440 rethink fishing on an island covered up with bears. But 224 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:50,799 I might be wrong. There may not be any bears 225 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,480 on Vancouver Island. You guys, comment below and let me 226 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:56,200 know people who know. I'd love to hear about it. 227 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,039 But thanks Ted for this email. It was really good, 228 00:14:00,159 --> 00:14:03,840 what a great story. He hasn't seen anything before or 229 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,279 since like this, and it really makes you wonder, really 230 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,000 makes you wonder what's going on on Vancouver Island. Thank 231 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,360 you again for the email. Here's a story from my 232 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:19,639 neck of the woods, just down the road in Tupelo, Mississippi. 233 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:23,679 My son married a Mississippi girl and lived in northeast 234 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,480 Tupelo until recently. It was a suburban area where the 235 00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:30,759 woods came up between the streets and they ran north 236 00:14:30,919 --> 00:14:34,759 to the forested hills and gullies along Elvis Presley Lake. 237 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:39,279 We agreed it was squatchy looking. We even had some 238 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,120 odd branch constructions way up hind those woods. All kind 239 00:14:44,159 --> 00:14:47,879 of wildlife frequented the area because his property backed up 240 00:14:47,919 --> 00:14:52,039 to the woods. Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, 241 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:54,960 he used to tease his kids about bigfoot living in 242 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,639 those woods. But he doesn't tease them any longer. I'll 243 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,679 let him tell the rest of them story. We had 244 00:15:02,679 --> 00:15:06,240 a snowstorm March eleven, twenty twenty two, and the wind 245 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,440 had knocked the trash can on the side of the 246 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,000 house over. It was about seven forty five or seven 247 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:15,799 fifty PM. My wife had just come home and we 248 00:15:15,799 --> 00:15:18,960 were picking up trash using the car headlights to see 249 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,399 when something let out a whoop, howl, scream. That's the 250 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,120 best way I can describe it. It was incredibly loud, 251 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,279 at least as loud as a tornado siren. Sounded like 252 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,799 it was from that patch of woods right down the street. 253 00:15:34,799 --> 00:15:37,360 I wouldn't be surprised if half the neighborhood heard it, 254 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,080 especially the people up in the trailer park on the 255 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,360 other side of the woods. It made us all jump. Oh, 256 00:15:43,399 --> 00:15:45,720 I can guarantee you the people in the trailer park 257 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:52,039 heard it. You better believe that. In fact, the unbelievably 258 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,120 loud scream we heard started with a whoop and then 259 00:15:55,159 --> 00:15:58,399 built into a howl, and finally a powerful but higher 260 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,480 pitched scream. And it was all in one breath. There 261 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,720 was no pause. It was like it was singing a 262 00:16:05,879 --> 00:16:10,480 scale from low to high. I said, dang, that was close. 263 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,480 My wife was like, what was that. I've lived around 264 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,720 here most of my life and I've never heard anything 265 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,799 like that before I have, I said. I guess my 266 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,600 face gave it away, because she asked, do you think 267 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,759 it was bigfoot? I said, Yep, that was bigfoot. Two 268 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,879 weeks later, he was out back working on his lawnmower 269 00:16:31,919 --> 00:16:34,440 one night and he heard a whoop from the same direction. 270 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,080 It was answered by another whoop from the other end 271 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,399 of the street by the pond in the woods. There's 272 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,240 more than one, he thought, And the next day he 273 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,919 laid down the law to a seven and five year old. 274 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:50,159 No whooping and no banging around on things, and don't 275 00:16:50,159 --> 00:16:53,559 even think about going back in those woods. And that's 276 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,360 when he quit teasing the kids or mentioning Bigfoot. They 277 00:16:57,399 --> 00:17:02,559 moved to a different town soon thereafter. Oh that's Tupelo's 278 00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:05,559 and that's in a suburban area. Now that's pretty cool. 279 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:08,680 You know, there's all kinds of Bigfoot reports around here 280 00:17:09,039 --> 00:17:11,400 around Mississippi. I live right on the edge of the 281 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,759 Holly Springs National Forest. If y'all ever heard coonbo talk, 282 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,319 he talks about his stomping grounds in the holly. Matter 283 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,279 of fact, he even invited me to go with him 284 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:23,160 one night. I don't really know if I want to 285 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,480 go right around in cars whooping for bigfoots all night, 286 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,759 but I might go. I don't know. I might go, 287 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,279 but I kind of like the stories. I don't like 288 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,960 to put myself in the mix. I don't want one 289 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,960 of them things after me because those things charge Coonbo 290 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:41,200 and those guys. So but this was a great story. 291 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,559 I really appreciate the man sending it, and it was 292 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,400 close to my where I live. That makes it even 293 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:51,720 more interesting for me. Here's an email from John. I'm 294 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,880 not sure how to categorize this. When Neoma did the 295 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,200 cleanup on this story, she thinks it's either a time 296 00:17:58,279 --> 00:18:01,519 warp or a matrix glisse. But let's read on and 297 00:18:01,559 --> 00:18:03,720 find out what it is. It's a pretty cool story. 298 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,559 In the spring of nineteen eighty six, I was working 299 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:11,839 for Shell Oil in Long Island, New York. I took 300 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:15,039 my vacations twice a year, one in the spring and 301 00:18:15,079 --> 00:18:17,079 one in the fall, so I could drive up to 302 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,400 Saint Lawrence to see my family and friends. In the spring, 303 00:18:21,599 --> 00:18:23,839 I would do some fishing and in the fall, I 304 00:18:23,839 --> 00:18:28,400 would hunt. I owned a sport car back then, so 305 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:31,680 naturally I pushed the limits with it. I can make 306 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,559 that eight hour drive in six hours. On this trip, 307 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,960 I expected to be back on the family farm by 308 00:18:38,079 --> 00:18:42,440 nine am. My route took me through Plattsburgh and from 309 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,839 there I take the military turn bike to Ellenburgh and 310 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,359 then i'd take Route eleven to Constable. On this trip, 311 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,039 this is where I began to get an odd feeling. 312 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:55,920 I couldn't place my finger on why I felt the 313 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,960 way that I did, until I realized I hadn't seen 314 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:03,680 anyone in a while, not a single person. No one 315 00:19:03,799 --> 00:19:07,079 was out driving or walking around. No one was headed 316 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:10,039 to work, no one was taking their kids to school. 317 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,640 There just wasn't anyone. It was so odd. But it 318 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,359 was at seven o'clock in the morning, and I figured 319 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,359 I was just in the right place at the right 320 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:23,519 time to miss people starting their day. I was in 321 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:27,359 Franklin County at the time, with another hour left before 322 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:32,079 reaching home. By the time I crossed into Saint Lawrence County, 323 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,240 I was beginning to get worried I should have seen 324 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:38,480 someone by then, and I started looking in the windows 325 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,519 of houses and storefronts as I drove by, hoping to 326 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:46,240 see someone, see anyone, and I never saw a soul. 327 00:19:48,279 --> 00:19:50,200 I was half an hour from the farm and I 328 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,559 began passing the homes of friends, and I was sure 329 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,000 i'd see people moving around there, but again there was 330 00:19:57,039 --> 00:20:01,240 no one around. I pushed on tour home, knowing i'd 331 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,720 see at least my four family members when I got 332 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:08,279 to the house. But when I got there, they were gone. 333 00:20:08,599 --> 00:20:11,079 The door was unlocked, so I walked in and I 334 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:16,119 called out. I got no answer. It was eight thirty am. 335 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,960 Everyone should have been up and going about their day. 336 00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:23,440 There was livestock to ten two. That's it. I thought 337 00:20:23,599 --> 00:20:26,359 they must be out in the barn, but they weren't. 338 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,599 It was just the cows and horses. Now I was 339 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,200 completely freaked out, and I decided to drive into town. 340 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,240 It was a small town with a general store and 341 00:20:38,279 --> 00:20:41,119 a post office and a hardware store. There was a 342 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,359 laundry mat, and there were a couple of bars. Now 343 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,880 I knew the bars would still be closed, but the 344 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,319 other businesses all would have opened by seven. I went 345 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:55,799 to the grocery first. No one was there. It was open, 346 00:20:56,279 --> 00:20:58,440 but I could have run off with the cash register 347 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:01,839 and no one would have been there to stay. I 348 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,279 was feeling more and more like I was trapped in 349 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:08,599 an episode of the Twilight Zone. I drove over to 350 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,079 a friend's house next. No one was home there either, 351 00:21:13,279 --> 00:21:15,799 and finally I decided to go back to the farm 352 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:19,240 and wait. I was doing my best to be reasonable. 353 00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:23,319 That was probably an emergency somewhere, I told myself, and 354 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:28,200 everyone went to help. I was reasoning with myself, and 355 00:21:28,279 --> 00:21:30,880 I didn't know where the emergency was, so I just 356 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,559 have to go back to the farm and wait. Someone 357 00:21:33,599 --> 00:21:37,920 would show up sooner or later. I was tired from 358 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,400 all the driving through the night, so I stretched out 359 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,160 on the couch and I fell asleep. And when I 360 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,400 woke up, it was noon and my father was coming 361 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,319 through the front door. I asked him where everyone went. 362 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,119 He looked at me like I was nuts and asked 363 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,359 what I was talking about. Dad. When I got home, 364 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,680 everyone was gone, I said, and again he looked, but 365 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,440 he said that a lot of people went over to 366 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,160 Messina for some big event from two whole counties. I question, 367 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:10,400 and it was clear that he didn't understand, so I 368 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,000 explained everything that had happened. He shrugged his shoulders and 369 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:18,240 he said, you got to be mistaken, son. I went 370 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:20,799 to the store, but I've only been gone twenty minutes. 371 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,200 I thought you just got here. As far as he 372 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,960 was concerned, everyone was where they were supposed to be. 373 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,359 I've only told this story to a few close friends. 374 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,119 I know most people would think I'm crazy. I pushed 375 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,759 it to the back of my mind and I have 376 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,680 kind of forgotten about it over the years. However, listening 377 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:45,119 to your last show about a guy who lost time 378 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,680 while driving brought it all back. Was it all the 379 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,880 result of a random event aligning perfectly or did something 380 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,359 really strange happen? I guess I'll never know. And he 381 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,279 mentions that he's got more stories and I would love 382 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:02,319 to read them. This is an old story, but I 383 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,480 would love to read your stories, John, send them on brother. 384 00:23:05,599 --> 00:23:11,920 Thanks for the story. M